Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute
to the Brave Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America
leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind Long Island Sound(1947) sees a writer
coerced into a riotous flock of high flying society people with turbulent results and Volcano
(1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a
fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933) was Coward's
private satire on the way he Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age
Cannot Wither (1967) Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection as it portrays
the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties who meet without fail every year to
reminisce. Together these works offer a new and intriguing insight into Coward the playwright
and his oeuvre that extends well beyond his most well-known works such as Private Lives Blithe
Spirit and Hay Fever. The volume is introduced by Coward expert and scholar Barry Day.
