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...writing for the London Sunday Times, James Agate commented that Noel Coward, "whether as dramatist or composer, has worked invariably for the passing moment, for the present laughter rather than the applause of posterity...Whatever he does, the effect is theatrical, greasepainted." These lines serve as an appropriate epigraph for Coward's life and work, and also for Kirkland House Drama Society's finely acted and tightly directed production of Coward's comedy Present Laughter...
Garry is more or less a one-dimensional character. He is forever shown as the actor clinging to artifice. Noel Coward wrote the part with little concern for full-bodied characterization. His concern was rather to facilitate virtuoso dramatic performances...
Short, one of the finest interpreters of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Rodgers and Hart, and George Gershwin, has been playing his jazzy numbers for more than 40 years...
...Noel Rubenstein, editor of the Brown Daily Herald, said CIA agents had reportedly been present at various seminars and coffee hours sponsored by Brown's now-defunct Young Socialist Alliance...
Gumbooted Bears. Ayckbourn is one of England's funniest, most prolific playwrights, with a fine ear for middle-class patterns of speech. Sometimes his dialogue snaps back like Noel Coward's; at others, he evokes P.G. Wodehouse's rococo style. It is a shame that this production fails to do him or Norman justice. A man who envisions Australia in winter as an army of gumbooted koala bears and who can find menace in his pajamas ("The tops are alright-it's the bottoms you've got to watch") must be lovable. Richard Benjamin...