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Barnaby Thompson’s fannish documentary makes escape and subterfuge its recurring themes
A new documentary adds to play revivals and a hefty biography in appreciation of the Master 50 years after his death
Also opening: two 1920s dramas of deception and disappointment — Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Circle’ and Noël Coward’s ‘The Vortex’
Oliver Soden’s captivating and idiosyncratic biography detects the darkness hiding beneath the playwright’s cleverness
Has 2018 not been a vintage year for fiction? Or is this just a humourless cop out?
The cast ride the Cowardian merry-go-round with inexhaustible flair in this revived package of one-act plays
Emma Rice’s retelling of Noël Coward’s love story is lively, funny and humane
The series reassessing reputations asks why Gray has been ranked beneath his flamboyant counterpart
The revival lacks the spirited treatment that Noël Coward’s tempestuous comedy demands
An ensemble approach pays dividends for this production of nine Noël Coward playlets
Angela Lansbury excels as an eccentric yet earnest medium in Noël Coward’s bitter comedy
A fine new production of a play that catches the pain of people caught between two worlds with lyricism and humour
This revival of Coward’s 1925 play has a solid cast but the staging does not always hit the right note
He rarely burrows under the surface of a lyric
Peasant food has become an educated middle-class marker
Running a country on eloquence alone hasn’t worked out disastrously for the UK’s ruling classes – or at least not yet
It’s surprising what you find out about yourself when you take a moment to understand and seek out what nourishes you
Management lessons and rip-off handbags
I seem to be organising a celebration in my street for the upcoming royal wedding
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