Noël Coward - Plays

Plays

For plays that were written more than two years before the original production, a date of composition is given and the second date given is the year when first produced (fp).
  • The Last Chapter (Ida Collaborates) (1917), one-act comedy, co-written with Esmé Wynne under their joint pen name, Esnomel
  • Woman and Whisky (1918), one-act play, co-written with Wynne
  • The Rat Trap (1918), play in four acts; fp 1926
  • I'll Leave It to You (1920), light comedy in three acts
  • The Young Idea (1922), comedy of youth in three acts
  • Sirocco (1921), play in three acts, revised 1927
  • The Better Half (1922), comedy in one act
  • The Queen Was in the Parlour (1922), play in three acts, fp 1926
  • Weatherwise (1923), comedy in two scenes, fp 1932
  • Fallen Angels (1925), comedy in three acts
  • The Vortex (1924), play in three acts
  • Hay Fever (1925), comedy
  • Easy Virtue (1925), play in three acts
  • Semi-Monde originally Ritz Bar (1926), play in three acts, fp 1988
  • This Was a Man (1926), comedy in three acts
  • The Marquise (1927), comedy in three acts
  • Home Chat (1927), play in three acts
  • Private Lives (1930), intimate comedy in three acts
  • Post Mortem (1932), play in eight scenes, fp 1992
  • Cavalcade (1931), play in three parts
  • Design For Living (1933), comedy in three acts
  • Point Valaine (1934), play in three acts
  • Tonight at 8:30 (1935/36), three programmes of the following one-act plays:
    • We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play, Ways and Means, Still Life, Family Album, Star Chamber
  • Present Laughter (1939), play in three acts, fp 1942
  • This Happy Breed (1939), play in three acts, fp 1942
  • Blithe Spirit (1941), play in three acts
  • Peace In Our Time (1947), play in two acts
  • Long Island Sound (1947), comedy adapted from his short story What Mad Pursuit?, fp 1989 (Windsor gala performance)
  • South Sea Bubble (Island Fling in USA), (1951), comedy in three acts
  • Relative Values (1951), comedy in three acts
  • Quadrille (1952), romantic comedy in three acts
  • Nude with Violin (1956), comedy in three acts
  • Volcano (1957), play in two acts, Mill at Sonning, staged reading 1989; staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, 2012.
  • Look After Lulu! (1959), three act farce adapted from Georges Feydeau
  • Waiting in the Wings (1960), play in three acts
  • Suite in Three Keys: A Song at Twilight; Shadows of the Evening; Come into the Garden, Maud (1966), a trilogy
  • Star Quality (1967), Coward's last play, comedy in three acts, fp Bath, 1985

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