Noël Coward

Introduction
Plays
Musicals
Plays adapted ftom Noël Coward's short stories

Listed here are all of the known theatre works of Noël Coward.

The theatre works are grouped under the titles: Plays, Revues and Musicals, and Short Stories that have been adapted for the stage, film, radio and television. Some of the plays included here exist only as original manuscripts or are partially completed work.

Others remain unproduced. Short additional notes are included to indicate these details where they are known.

Musical adaptations of Coward's work that were composed or written by others are included. Play and Musicals shown in blue are linked to further pages about the work and include a brief history and a synopsis of the plot.

In 1985 the BBC adapted six of Coward's short stories for television. These were later released by START Video on VHS videotape. On September 11th 2007 they were re-released by the BBC as part of a 7 DVD collection of Coward's work.

In recent years three previously unproduced works finally received their premier: Semi-Monde (1977 Glasgow Citizens Theatre and 2001 Lyric Theatre, London. Volcano (2000 Palace Theatre, Westcliffe-on-Sea) and Long Island Sound (2002 TACT New York. We...). Judy Campbel and Noël Coward are shown here in a promotional photograph for Blithe Spirit.

Decade	Title	Written	Produced	Adaptations
1910s	Ida Collaborates (with Esmé Wynne)	1917	1917
	Whisky And Women (with Esmé Wynne)	1918	1918
	The Unattainable (unpublished)	1918
	The Rat Trap	1918	1926
	Nature's Nobleman (one-act, unpublished)	1918
	The Last Trick (unproduced)	1918
	The Impossible Wife (unproduced)	1918
	title unknown (unproduced)	1919
	I'll Leave It To You	1919	1920
1920s	Barriers Down (unproduced)	1920
	The Young Idea	1921	1922	TV 1939
	Sirrocco	1921	1927
	The Better Half (one-act)	1921	1922
	A Young Man's Fancy (unproduced)	1922
	The Queen Was In The Parlour (originally called Nadya, then Souvenir)	1922	1926	Film 1927 and as Tonight Is Ours 1933
	Mild Oats (one-act)	1922	1922
	The Vortex	1923	1924	Film 1928 TV 1964, 1969
	Fallen Angels	1923	1925
	Weatherwise (one-act)	1923	1932
	Hay Fever	1924	1925	TV 1938, 1939, 1960, 1968
	Easy Virtue	1924	1925 New York 1926 London	Film 1928
	Semi-Monde (originally called Ritz Bar)	1924	1977 Glasgow 2001 London
	This Was A Man	1926	1926 New York, 1927 Berlin, 1928 Paris
	The Marquise	1926	1927	TV 1969, 1980
	Home Chat	1927	1927
1930s	Private Lives	1930	1930	Film 1931 TV 1939, 1976
	Post-Mortem	1930	1944 (amateur) 1946 (amateur)	TV 1968
	Some Other Private Lives (parody of Private Lives; one-act)	1930	1930 (charity show) 1932
	Cavalcade	1930-31	1931	Film 1933 TV 1955
	Design for Living	1931	1933 US 1939 London	Film 1933 TV 1964, 1979
	Point Valaine	1934	1934 Boston 1935 New York
	Tonight at 8.30 (Tonight at 7:30 in Manchester) Three programmes of one-act plays listed as follows:	1935	1935 Manchester followed by UK tour 1936 London
	We Were Dancing			Film 1942
	The Astonished Heart			Film 1949
	Red Peppers			Meet Me Tonight 1952 TV 1937, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1969
	Hands Across The Sea			TV 1938
	Fumed Oak			Meet Me Tonight 1952
	Shadow Play			TV 1954
	Family Album
	Star Chamber (only performed once)
	Ways and Means			Meet Me Tonight 1952
	Still Life			Brief Encounter Film 1945 TV 1951, 1954, 1974
	Present Laughter (Originally called Sweet Sorrow)	1939	1939	TV 1964
	This Happy Breed	1939	1939	Film 1944 TV 1956
1940s	Time Remembered (unproduced)	1940
	Blithe Spirit	1941	1941	Film 1945 TV 1946, 1948, 1956, 1964, 1966
	Peace In Our Time	1946	1947
	Long Island Sound	1947	2002 New York	TV 1985 as What Mad Pursuit? (see Short Stories)
	Island Fling (originally Home and Colonial; in the UK South Sea Bubble)	1949	1951 Connecticut 1956 Manchester
1950s	Relative Values (originally Moxie)	1950	1951	Film 2000
	Quadrille	1951	1952	TV 1961, 1966, 1986
	Nude With Violin	1954	1956
	Volcano	1956	2000 Westcliffe
	Look After Lulu	1958	1959
	Waiting In The Wings	1959	1960
1960s	Suite In Three Keys (Suite In Two Keys in the US) trilogy as follows:	1965	1966 London 1974 New York
	A Song At Twilight			TV 1973, 1982
	Shadows of the Evening
	Come Into the Garden, Maud			TV 1982
	Star Quality (unproduced)	1968		Adaptation by Noël Coward

Type	Title	Written	Produced	Adaptations
Revues	London Calling (part author)	1922	1923 London
	On With The Dance	1924-25	1925 Manchester
	This Year of Grace	1927-28	1928 Manchester
	Words and Music	1932	1932 Manchester
	Set To Music	1938	1938 Boston 1939 New York
	Sigh No More	1945	1945 Manchester 1945 London
Musicals	Bitter Sweet	1929	1929	Film 1933, 1940
	Conversation Piece (romantic comedy with music)	1933	1934
	Operette	1937	1938
	Pacific 1860	1945-46	1946
	Ace of Clubs (musical play)	1949	1950
	After The Ball (musical play)	1953	1954 Liverpool
	Sail Away (musical comedy)	1961	1961 New York
	The Girl Who Came To Supper (Musical comedy, Coward wrote music & lyrics only)	1962	1962 London 1963 New York
	High Spirits (musical based on Blithe Spirit by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray. Originally called 'Faster Than Sound' - Noël Coward Director)	1963	1964 US 1964 London
	Mr & Mrs (musical based on Fumed Oak & Brief Encounter - music and lyrics by John Taylor)	1968	1968 London

Title	Written as a Story	Produced as a Play	Adaptations
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe	1939		TV 1968, 1981
What Mad Pursuit (Long Island Sound)	1939	2002 New York	TV 1985
Star Quality	1951	2001 London (adpt. Chris Luscombe)	TV 1968, 1985
Star Quality (unproduced)	1968		Adapted by Noël Coward
Mr & Mrs. Edgehill	1951		TV 1985
Mrs. Capper's Birthday	1964		TV 1968, 1985
Pretty Polly Barlow	1964		TV 1966
Me and the Girls	1964		TV 1985
Bon Voyage	1967		TV 1968