Madame Arcati: You say she's visible only to your husband? Ruth Condomine: Yes. Madame Arcati: Visible only to husband. Audible too, I presume? Ruth Condomine: Extremely audible. Blithe Spirit, written in 1941, is a light comedy about a writer, Charles Condomine, who is looking for new material for...
A very close second for my favourite, I found myself laughing out loud more than once as I read. In this story a writer accidentally brings back the ghost of his dead wife, much to the distaste of his current wife. You can't beat that. The work up to the ending is flawless, especially when you consi...
My favourite of Noël Cowards work, I saw this in Manchester a couple of years ago and found it absolutely hilarious. Two exes find each other in a hotel while on their honeymoon with their new spouses. Reading it was a pleasure, the story is funny and the characters are well developed. They aren't p...
I love the dialogue in Noël Cowards work, but for this one- one of his earlier works from 1920, the plot didn't quite fit for me. I wouldn't have known quite what was going on if I hadn't read the forward I don't think. It was still worth reading though. Nobody writes British wit quite like Noël Cow...
bookshelves: radio-4, under-100-ratings, spring-2013, play-dramatisation, fradio, amusing Read from April 05 to 06, 2013 Sat: 06/04/2013BBC blurb: Often thought of as semi autobiographical, Noël Coward's 'Present Laughter' follows a few days in the life of successful and self-obsessed actor Garr...
bookshelves: play-dramatisation, amusing Read in December, 2008 Noel Coward's classic comedy, adapted for radio by Bert Coules. When writer Charles Condomine invites a medium to hold a seance at his country house, he anticipates little more than some harmless fakery and a lot of good material for...
Sat: 06/04/2013BBC blurb: Often thought of as semi autobiographical, Noël Coward's 'Present Laughter' follows a few days in the life of successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to go on tour to Africa.Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal with interrupt...
Thanks to a reference in another book to Mount Pleasant I thought of a Coward play (more on that in a bit) and then suddenly had to reread these. Coward is who folk who discover and love Oscar Wilde usually move on to in their drama reading, and with good reason as Coward does have fun with witty an...
It's ok... maybe a bit more than just ok... it's funny and amusing the way british radio drama are. But somehow I don't feel like giving it 3 stars. Maybe because some part of it was predictable and funnily I was hoping the book to end around 3/4 of the story. I mean, really wishing it to just end a...
"The vortex of beastliness"The notorious 1924 drama lifting the lid on the lives of the country house set and what a plate of worms it is too, climaxing in Oedipal angst.
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