Coward Plays: Volume Six
Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward describedĀ Semi-MondeĀ as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual
1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society".
Point ValaineĀ is "the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the
work of a master of the stage" (New York Times);Ā South Sea BubbleĀ which concerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilstĀ Nude With ViolinĀ is a witty comedy about art fraud.
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Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward describedĀ Semi-MondeĀ as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual
1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society".
Point ValaineĀ is "the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics.. unmistakably the
work of a master of the stage" (New York Times);Ā South Sea BubbleĀ which concerns "the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace." (Manchester Guardian) whilstĀ Nude With ViolinĀ is a witty comedy about art fraud.
