{"product_id":"coward-plays-3-design-for-living-cavalcade-conversation-piece-tonight-at-8-30-i-still-life","title":"Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Noel Coward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDesign for Living\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write \"until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCavalcade\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConversation Piece\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song \"I'll Follow My Secret Heart\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso in the volume are three short plays from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTonight at 8.30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHands Across the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStill Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which became the film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBrief Encounter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFumed Oak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Theatre Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55248124707192,"sku":"9780413461001","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/9562\/5032\/files\/9780413461001.jpg?v=1755269935","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/products\/coward-plays-3-design-for-living-cavalcade-conversation-piece-tonight-at-8-30-i-still-life","provider":"National Theatre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}