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  1. Ways and means
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    An impatient heiress Stella and her gambling husband Toby are penniless, but they manage to live elegantly enough sponging off their high society friends. As the play opens they are outstaying their welcome in the Lloyd-Ransomes' villa on the Côte... more

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    An impatient heiress Stella and her gambling husband Toby are penniless, but they manage to live elegantly enough sponging off their high society friends. As the play opens they are outstaying their welcome in the Lloyd-Ransomes' villa on the Côte d'Azur. But as Toby has no luck in the casino, their bridge debts are becoming unmanageable and the last of their jewellery is pawned, something very melodramatic needs to occur for them to get away with it this time. 'Ways and Means' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a series of ten plays, ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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    Originally published: in print in Tonight at 8.30. London: Methuen Drama, 2009
  2. We were dancing
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'We Were Dancing' is set at a dinner-dance on a South Sea island, where two married people fall suddenly in love when they are dancing - unfortunately they are not married to each other. They spend a blissful night planning their future and trying to... more

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    'We Were Dancing' is set at a dinner-dance on a South Sea island, where two married people fall suddenly in love when they are dancing - unfortunately they are not married to each other. They spend a blissful night planning their future and trying to shrug off Louise's husband, but as the next day dawns and the music has stopped, little of the last night's enchantment remains. 'We Were Dancing' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  3. Words and music
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Words... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Words and Music' was first presented by Charles B. Cochran at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 16 September 1932. It ran for 164 performances.

     
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  4. London calling!
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'London... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'London Calling!' was first presented by André Charlot at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, on 4 September 1923. It ran for 316 performances.

     
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  5. On with the dance
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'On With... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'On With the Dance' was first presented by Charles B. Cochran at the London Pavilion, on 30 April 1925. It ran for 229 performances.

     
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  6. Playlets, additional sketches and early pieces
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period.... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. Throughout his career, Coward wrote many sketches and playlets that were not part of one of the many revues to which he lent his name to great success. Those works are gathered here, arranged chronologically, from 'What Next', written in 1915 to 'Some other Private Lives' (a parody on Coward's own more famous work), written in 1930.

     
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  7. Point Valaine
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Point Valaine' is a three act melodrama, written in 1934, set in the Caribbean. It is the story of what happens in a tropical hotel when love runs amuck. Stefan, an amorous, brutal waiter, is very much taken with the 40-year-old hotelier, Linda, who... more

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    'Point Valaine' is a three act melodrama, written in 1934, set in the Caribbean. It is the story of what happens in a tropical hotel when love runs amuck. Stefan, an amorous, brutal waiter, is very much taken with the 40-year-old hotelier, Linda, who seems to object only slightly to his attentions. But one day she decides that a change of lovers will do her no harm and feels that she needs more than Stefan's brutal lust. Her affair with the young man has terrifying repercussions. Stefan becomes violent and alternately chokes and caresses Linda. Finally he cuts his own wrists and throws himself into the sea.

     
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  8. 'Red peppers'
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    A lovingly cynical tribute to the music hall, 'Red Peppers' features a performing couple whose onstage choreography and off-stage marriage leave something to be desired, as they snap and scrap in a comic but sympathetic picture of variety show life.... more

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    A lovingly cynical tribute to the music hall, 'Red Peppers' features a performing couple whose onstage choreography and off-stage marriage leave something to be desired, as they snap and scrap in a comic but sympathetic picture of variety show life. 'Red Peppers' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays to be performed by the same cast in sets of three, alternating matinées and evenings, ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  9. Set to music
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Set to... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Set to Music' was first presented by John C. Wilson at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on 18 January 1936. It ran for 129 performances.

     
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  10. Shadow play
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Victoria and Simon's marriage isn't going very well, and they're both trying not to mind. After an anxious evening at the theatre, Victoria takes some sleeping pills to calm herself and drowsily slips into reminiscences. The play trips back into... more

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    Victoria and Simon's marriage isn't going very well, and they're both trying not to mind. After an anxious evening at the theatre, Victoria takes some sleeping pills to calm herself and drowsily slips into reminiscences. The play trips back into their past of lilting romance and blissful adoration, with an innovative blurring of past and present: a fascinating and infatuated dream. 'Shadow Play' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  11. Sigh no more
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Sigh No... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'Sigh No More' was first presented by John C. Wilson and H. M. Tennent Ltd at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, on 22 August 1945. It ran for 213 performances.

     
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  12. Star Chamber
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    A group of actors and theatre-related people arrive fitfully for a committee meeting of the Garrick Haven Fund, a charity for elderly and impoverished actresses, but the transactions of the committee are far less interesting to them than their own... more

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    A group of actors and theatre-related people arrive fitfully for a committee meeting of the Garrick Haven Fund, a charity for elderly and impoverished actresses, but the transactions of the committee are far less interesting to them than their own affairs. Very little business is conducted, and rather a lot of hysterical posturing is performed instead. 'Star Chamber' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  13. Still life
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Still Life' is the love story that would become the classic film 'Brief Encounter'. A happily married housewife and a doctor meet each week - first accidentally, and then quite deliberately - in a station refreshment room. As they fall deeply in... more

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    'Still Life' is the love story that would become the classic film 'Brief Encounter'. A happily married housewife and a doctor meet each week - first accidentally, and then quite deliberately - in a station refreshment room. As they fall deeply in love their passion is only matched by their horror at betraying their families: they remain poised only on the edge of happiness. 'Still Life' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  14. The astonished heart
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'The Astonished Heart' is the story of a happily married psychiatrist who gradually sinks under the emotional pressure of falling passionately in love with his wife's friend Leonora. Christian is tortured by jealousy and by his acute professional... more

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    'The Astonished Heart' is the story of a happily married psychiatrist who gradually sinks under the emotional pressure of falling passionately in love with his wife's friend Leonora. Christian is tortured by jealousy and by his acute professional awareness of his obsession, gradually losing his control but not his fascinating articulacy. 'The Astonished Heart' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.

     
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  15. The third little show
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'The... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'The Third Little Show' was first presented by Dwight Deer Woman at the Music Box Theater, New York, on 1 June 1931. It ran for 136 performances.

     
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  16. The vortex
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
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    'The Vortex' shot Coward to fame in 1924 as both a playwright and a performer, its depiction of sex and drugs in the Jazz Age stunning the critics and causing a sensation. Florence Lancaster is an ageing social beauty and a serial adulteress, who... more

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    'The Vortex' shot Coward to fame in 1924 as both a playwright and a performer, its depiction of sex and drugs in the Jazz Age stunning the critics and causing a sensation. Florence Lancaster is an ageing social beauty and a serial adulteress, who openly takes beautiful young lovers half her age. Her son Nicky returns from Paris with both his fiancée Bunty, and a serious drug addiction. As both mother and son show increasing instability and are abandoned by their lovers, the play moves toward darker territory. Beginning as an apparently frothy comedy, the façades of mother and son eventually collapse, and a raw, anguished drama is unleashed.

     
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  17. The young idea
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
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    Coward's 1922 'comedy of youth in three acts' is an early work in which two precocious siblings run circles around their elders and betters in order to engineer the reconciliation of their divorced parents. Sholto and Gerda are visiting their... more

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    Coward's 1922 'comedy of youth in three acts' is an early work in which two precocious siblings run circles around their elders and betters in order to engineer the reconciliation of their divorced parents. Sholto and Gerda are visiting their father's country home in order to hunt, learn about English society and split up their father from his second wife. The entertainments of the English country gentry are a far cry from the sun-baked Italian villa they have grown up in with their mother, and their satirical volleys against the horsy aristocracy are as delightful as their whispered conspiracy to orchestrate a happy ending for their parents.

     
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  18. 'This was a man'
    Author: Coward, Noel
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    A light-heartedly satirical comedy, 'This Was A Man' follows a love triangle in which no-one really loves anyone at all. Edward is still married to Carol, despite her infidelities, which are a badly kept secret. His concerned friend Evelyn decides... more

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    A light-heartedly satirical comedy, 'This Was A Man' follows a love triangle in which no-one really loves anyone at all. Edward is still married to Carol, despite her infidelities, which are a badly kept secret. His concerned friend Evelyn decides that Carol needs to be taught a lesson, and sets about seducing her in order to catch her red-handed. But Carol, though not the cleverest of socialites, is brilliant at games of the heart, and soon it is she who is seducing a very flattered Edward. Banned by the Lord Chamberlain for what was considered a too facetious treatment of adultery, the play was first shown in 1926 in New York.

     
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  19. This year of grace!
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'This... more

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    In the 1920s and 1930s Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue - short and often topical or satirical sketches, many of which were a lead-in to a song. He started producing sketches for some of the most famous revues of the period. 'This Year of Grace!' was first presented by Charles B. Cochran at the London Pavilion, on 22 March 1928. It ran for 316 performances.

     
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  20. Easy virtue
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    In 'Easy Virtue', John Whittaker brings home his new wife for the first time. Some years older than her husband, Larita is a woman of class, beauty and experience, with a worldview, we find, in stark contrast to the single-minded morality of her new... more

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    In 'Easy Virtue', John Whittaker brings home his new wife for the first time. Some years older than her husband, Larita is a woman of class, beauty and experience, with a worldview, we find, in stark contrast to the single-minded morality of her new sisters- and mother-in-law. At first a tense truce reigns, but after a summer of boredom and mental lassitude, Larita is confronted with the facts of her past: scandalous according to her outraged in-laws; but mere truth to Larita, who refuses to be brow-beaten into hypocrisy by the priggish social system of her new relations. 'Easy Virtue' was first performed in New York in 1926

     
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  21. Fallen angels
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    'Fallen Angels' is a biting, hilarious comedy about the rivalry between two bored married women as they await the arrival of their exotic former lover. Dramatising female sexual desire and frustration, the play's first performances in 1925 outraged... more

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    'Fallen Angels' is a biting, hilarious comedy about the rivalry between two bored married women as they await the arrival of their exotic former lover. Dramatising female sexual desire and frustration, the play's first performances in 1925 outraged the critics, who proclaimed it to be shocking and obscene. But rather than insulting British womanhood (as its scandalised opponents asserted) Coward's sharp, entertaining script incisively draws attention to male sexual hypocrisy, while probing the vacuous lives of the play's privileged protagonists

     
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    Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1979
  22. Family album
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    The Featherway family are gathered glumly in the drawing room in 1860 after their father's funeral. But as madeira is drunk, dressing-up boxes unearthed, songs sung, childhood memories re-discovered and the scandalous secrets of the will revealed,... more

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    The Featherway family are gathered glumly in the drawing room in 1860 after their father's funeral. But as madeira is drunk, dressing-up boxes unearthed, songs sung, childhood memories re-discovered and the scandalous secrets of the will revealed, the gloom turns into what Coward described as 'a sly satire on Victorian hypocrisy'. 'Family Album' is a short play from the 'Tonight at 8.30' cycle, which was first produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936

     
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    Originally published: in print in Tonight at 8.30. London: Methuen Drama, 2009
  23. Fumed oak
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    'Fumed Oak' is a satisfying suburban comedy in two acts: in the first, Henry Gow sits silently as his grumbling mother-in-law, his snappish wife and his whining daughter bicker over breakfast; in the second, he announces that he has changed his name... more

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    'Fumed Oak' is a satisfying suburban comedy in two acts: in the first, Henry Gow sits silently as his grumbling mother-in-law, his snappish wife and his whining daughter bicker over breakfast; in the second, he announces that he has changed his name and bought a boat ticket, and, leaving them the house and a barrage of insults he has been saving for over ten years, goes out of the front door with glee. 'Fumed Oak' is a short play from the 'Tonight at 8.30' cycle, which was first produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936

     
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    Originally published: in print in Tonight at 8.30. London: Methuen Drama, 2009
  24. Hands across the sea
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    A sparkling, hilarious and technically brilliant short comedy, 'Hands Across the Sea' is set at a cocktail party in a smart London flat where the telephone is always ringing and there are always three conversations happening at once. The earnest... more

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    A sparkling, hilarious and technically brilliant short comedy, 'Hands Across the Sea' is set at a cocktail party in a smart London flat where the telephone is always ringing and there are always three conversations happening at once. The earnest enquiries, enthusiastic reminiscences and society anecdotes scream along at dazzling pace, impeded not a jot by the hosts having no idea who exactly their guests are. 'Hands Across the Sea' is a short play from the 'Tonight at 8.30' sequence, which was first produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936

     
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    Originally published: in print in Tonight at 8.30. London: Methuen Drama, 2009
  25. Hay fever
    Author: Coward, Noel
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

    'Hay Fever', first performed in 1925, tells the story of a busy weekend at a country house, where each member of the Bliss family has invited a guest to stay, without informing anyone else. All four guests are forced into close quarters with the four... more

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    'Hay Fever', first performed in 1925, tells the story of a busy weekend at a country house, where each member of the Bliss family has invited a guest to stay, without informing anyone else. All four guests are forced into close quarters with the four members of the host family, each one more eccentric than the last. Parlour games turn to rancour; romantic alliances split and reform with flippant ease. As Saturday evening climaxes into a clamour of melodrama, each of the invited guests begin to rue ever accepting an invitation from the inimitable Blisses

     
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    Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1979