Composers and their stage works 



(Sir) Noël (Pierce) COWARD

Born in Teddington, Middlesex, 16 December 1899. Died March 26, 1973

 

 

Stage Plays:

  1. Ida Collaborates, with Esmé Wynne (produced 1917).
  2. Sketches in Tails Up! (produced 1918).
  3. Woman and Whisky, with Esmé Wynne (produced 1919).
  4. I'll Leave it to You (produced 1920). 1920.
  5. Bottles and Bones (produced 1922).
  6. The Better Half (produced 1922).
  7. Sketches in The Co-Optimists: A Pierrotic Entertainment (produced 1922; revised version produced 1924).
  8. The Young Idea: A Comedy o f Youth (produced 1922). 1924.
  9. London Calling!, with Ronald Jeans (revue: produced 1923; revised versions produced 1923, 1924).
  10. The Vortex (produced 1924). 1925.
  11. Sketches in Charlot's London Revue of 1924 (produced 1924).
  12. The Rat Trap (produced 1926). 1924.
  13. Sketches in Yoicks! (produced 1924).
  14. Sketches in Charlot's Revue of 1926 (produced 1925).
  15. On with the Dance, music by Philip Braham (revue: produced 1925).
  16. Hay Fever (produced 1925). 1925.
  17. Fallen Angels (produced 1925; revised version produced 1967). 1925.
  18. Easy Virtue (produced 1925). 1926.
  19. The Queen Was in the Parlour (produced 1926). 1926.
  20. This Was a Man (produced 1926). 1926.
  21. The Marquise (produced 1927). 1927.
  22. Home Chat (produced 1927). 1927.
  23. Sirocco (produced 1927). 1927. Sketches in White Birds (produced 1927).
  24. This Year of Grace! (revue: produced 1928).
  25. Bitter-Sweet, music by Coward (produced 1929). 1929.
  26. Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy (produced 1930). 1930.
  27. Sketches in The Third Little Show (produced 1931). 1931.
  28. Parody o f Private Lives (as Some Other Private Lives, produced 1931).
  29. Post-Mortem (televised 1967). 1931.
  30. Cavalcade (produced 1931). 1932.
  31. Weatherwise (produced 1932).
  32. Words and Music (revue; produced 1932; revised version, as Set to Music, produced 1939).
  33. Design for Living (produced 1933). 1933.
  34. Conversation Piece (produced 1934). 1934.
  35. Point Valaine (produced 1935). 1935.
  36. Tonight at 8:30 (includes We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers: An Interlude with Music, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak: An Unpleasant Comedy, Shadow Play, Family Album: A Victorian Comedy with Music, Star Chamber, Ways and Means, Still Life) (produced in three programmes, 1936).
  37. Operette, music by Coward (produced 1938). 1938.
  38. Sketches in All Clear (produced 1939).
  39. Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce (produced 1941). 1941.
  40. Present Laughter (produced 1942). 1943.
  41. This Happy Breed (produced 1942). 1943.
  42. Sign No More (revue; produced 1945).
  43. Pacific 1860: A Musical Romance, music by Coward (produced 1946).
  44. Brief Encounter, with others (screenplay 1946).
  45. Peace in Our Time (produced 1947). 1947.
  46. Ace of Clubs, music by Coward (produced 1950).
  47. Relative Values (produced 1951). 1952.
  48. Sketches in The Lyric Revue (produced 1951).
  49. South Sea Bubble (as Island Fling, produced 1951; as South Sea Bubble, produced 1956). 1956.
  50. Quadrille (produced 1952). 1952.
  51. Sketches in The Globe Revue (produced 1952).
  52. After the Ball, music by Coward, from a play by Wilde (produced 1954). 1954.
  53. Nude with Violin (produced 1956). 1957.
  54. Look after Lulu, from a play by Feydeau (produced 1959). 1959.
  55. London Morning (ballet scenario; produced 1959).
  56. Waiting in the Wings (produced 1960). 1960.
  57. Sail Away, music by Coward (produced 1961).
  58. The Girl Who Came to Supper, music and lyrics by Coward, from play The Sleeping Prince by Rattigan (produced 1963).
  59. Suite in Three Keys: A Song at Twilight, Shadows of the Evening., Come into the Garden Maud (produced in two programmes 1966). 1966.
  60. Semi-Monde (produced 1977).

creenplays:

  1. In Which We Serve, 1942;
  2. This Happy Breed, 1944;
  3. Blithe Spirit, with others, 1945;
  4. Brief Encounter, with others, 1946;
  5. The Astonished Heart, with others, 1949;
  6. Meet Me Tonight, 1952.

Radio Plays:

  • The Kindness of Mrs. Redcliffe, 1951.

Novel:

  • Pomp and Circumstance. 1960.