Present Laughter, the Glossary

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1. 129 relations: Albert Finney, Alex Jennings, Allison Janney, Andrew Scott (actor), Avice Landone, Barbara Murray, BBC, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television, Ben Brantley, Beryl Measor, Binkie Beaumont, Blackpool, Blithe Spirit (play), British Film Institute, Broadway theatre, Carpe diem, Chichester Festival Theatre, Circle in the Square Theatre, Clifton Webb, Cobie Smulders, Dana Ivey, Dennis Price, Diana Quick, Dinah Sheridan, Donald Sinden, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eleanor Bron, Elizabeth Hubbard, Eva Gabor, Farce, Fenella Fielding, Financial Times, Frank Langella, Gabrielle Drake, George C. Scott, Gerald Case, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Gladys Calthrop, Gothic architecture, Gwen Watford, Harriet Sansom Harris, Hay Fever (play), Honor Blackman, Hugh Sinclair (actor), Ian McKellen, Ilka Chase, Indira Varma, ITV1, Ivor Brown, ... Expand index (79 more) »

2. 1939 plays
3. Plays by Noël Coward

Albert Finney

Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor.

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Alex Jennings

Alex Michael Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor of the stage and screen, who worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.

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Allison Janney

Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress.

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Andrew Scott (actor)

Andrew Scott (born October 21, 1976) is an Irish actor.

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Avice Landone

Avice Landone (1 September 191012 June 1976) was an English actress who appeared in British television and film.

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Barbara Murray

Barbara Ann Murray (27 September 1929 – 20 May 2014) was an English actress.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Ben Brantley

Benjamin D. Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer.

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Beryl Measor

Beryl Measor (22 April 1908 – 8 February 1965) was a British actress.

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Binkie Beaumont

Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont (27 March 1908 - 22 March 1973) was a British theatre manager and producer, sometimes referred to as the "éminence grise" of the West End theatre.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit (play) are plays by Noël Coward.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Carpe diem

is a Latin aphorism, usually translated "seize the day", taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes (23 BC).

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Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre is a theatre and Grade II* listed building situated in Oaklands Park in the city of Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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Circle in the Square Theatre

The Circle in the Square Theatre is a Broadway theater at 235 West 50th Street, within the basement of Paramount Plaza, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Clifton Webb

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer.

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Cobie Smulders

Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress.

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Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress.

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Dennis Price

Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor.

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Diana Quick

Diana Marilyn Quick (born 23 November 1946) is an English actress.

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Dinah Sheridan

Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg; 17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012) was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was a British actor.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II.

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Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.

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Elizabeth Hubbard

Elizabeth Hubbard (December 22, 1933 – April 8, 2023) was an American actress, recognized for her role as Althea Davis on the NBC daytime soap opera, The Doctors (1964–1969, 1970-77, 1981–1982), for which she received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1974, and as businesswoman Lucinda Walsh on the CBS soap opera, As the World Turns (1984–2010) for which she received eight Daytime Emmy Award nominations.

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Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Fenella Fielding

Fenella Fielding, OBE (born Fenella Marion Feldman; 17 November 1927 – 11 September 2018) was an English stage, film and television actress who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and was often referred to as "England's first lady of the double entendre".

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen.

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Gabrielle Drake

Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress.

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George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor, director and producer.

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Gerald Case

(Thomas) Gerald CaseWalford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1908, p. 188 (1905 – 22 May 1985) was a British stage, film and television character actor, known, amongst others, for his role in the 1976 Wodehouse Playhouse episode, Strychnine in the Soup.

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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, formerly the Plymouth Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 236 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Gladys Calthrop

Gladys Edith Mabel Calthrop (née Treeby; 29 March 1894 – 7 March 1980) was an artist and leading British stage designer.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gwen Watford

Gwendoline Watford (10 September 1927 – 6 February 1994), professionally known after the mid-1950s as Gwen Watford, was an English actress.

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Harriet Sansom Harris

Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955) is an American actress known for her theater performances and for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives.

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Hay Fever (play)

alt. Present Laughter and Hay Fever (play) are plays by Noël Coward.

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Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The AvengersAaker, Everett (2006).

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Hugh Sinclair (actor)

Hugh Sinclair (19 May 1903 – 29 December 1962) was a British actor.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Ilka Chase

Ilka Chase (April 8, 1905 – February 15, 1978) was an American actress, radio host, and novelist.

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Indira Varma

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is a British actress and narrator.

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ITV1

ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc.

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Ivor Brown

Ivor John Carnegie Brown CBE (25 April 1891 – 22 April 1974) was a British journalist and man of letters.

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James Bolam

James Christopher Bolam (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor.

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James Donald

James Donald (18 May 1917 – 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor.

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Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (née Quigley; born October 28, 1939) is an American-Canadian actress and author.

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Jennifer Gray (actress)

Jennifer Gray (5 November 1916 – 3 February 1962) was a British actress, frequently seen in the West End and on tour between 1934 and 1954.

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Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress.

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Joan Kemp-Welch

Joan Kemp-Welch (23 September 19065 July 1999) was a British stage and film actress, who later went on to become a television director. After making her stage debut in 1926 at the Q Theatre, Kemp-Welch made her film debut in 1933 and appeared in fifteen films over the next decade largely in supporting or minor roles.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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John Peter (critic)

John Anthony Peter"John Anthony Peter".

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Joyce Carey

Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward.

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Judy Campbell

Judy Campbell (born Judith Mary Gamble; 31 May 1916 – 6 June 2004) was an English film, television and stage actress, widely known to be Noël Coward's muse.

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Julian Fellowes

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 17 August 1949), known professionally as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter, and Conservative peer.

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Kate Burton (actress)

Katherine Burton (born September 10, 1957) is an American actress, the daughter of actors Richard Burton and Sybil Christopher.

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Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor.

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Kristine Nielsen

Kristine E. Nielsen (born May 28, 1955) is an American actress known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Lisa Banes

Lisa Lou Banes (July 9, 1955 – June 14, 2021) was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere.

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Lisa Dillon

Lisa Dillon (née Stawiarski; born 1979) is an English actress.

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Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner is a British theatre critic, children's writer and journalist who contributes reviews and articles to The Stage, Stagedoor and has written for The Guardian.

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Mary Wimbush

Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924 – 31 October 2005) was an English actress whose career spanned sixty years.

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Matthew Warchus

Matthew Warchus (born 24 October 1966) is an English theatre director, filmmaker and dramaturg.

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Maxine Audley

Maxine Audley (29 April 1923 – 23 July 1992) was an English theatre and film actress.

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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Michel Sardou

Michel Charles Sardou (born 26 January 1947) is a French singer and occasional actor.

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Midlife crisis

A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 64 years old.

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes (born 18 May 1941) is a British-Australian actress.

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Moira Lister

Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of Orthez (6 August 192327 October 2007) was a South African-British film, stage and television actress and writer.

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Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor.

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Ned Sherrin

Edward George Sherrin (18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director.

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Nigel Patrick

Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman (2 May 1912 – 21 September 1981) was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Nora Swinburne

Leonora Mary Johnson (24 July 1902 – 1 May 2000), known professionally as Nora Swinburne, was an English actress who appeared in many British films.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Patricia Routledge

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge (born 17 February 1929) is an English actress and singer, best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor.

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Peter Bowles

Peter John Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an English screen and stage actor.

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Peter Hall (director)

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 11 September 2017) was an English theatre, opera and film director.

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Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.

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Peter Wyngarde

Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British television, stage and film actor active from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s.

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Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert, was an English film, stage and television actress.

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Present Laughter (Play of the Week)

"Present Laughter" is a 1967 British television version of the play of the same name by Noël Coward.

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Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. Present Laughter and Private Lives are comedy plays and plays by Noël Coward.

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Reg Rogers

Reg Rogers (born December 23, 1964) is an American stage, film, and television actor, known for his roles in Primal Fear and Runaway Bride and for the TV miniseries Attila.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.

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Richard II (play)

The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595.

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Rik Mayall

Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014), known professionally as Rik Mayall, was an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Robert Eddison

Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE (10 June 1908 – 14 December 1991) was an English actor, who despite his lengthy career as a classical stage actor, is probably most widely remembered in the role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Rufus Hound

Rufus Hound (born Robert James Blair Simpson 6 March 1979) is an English actor, comedian and presenter.

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Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director and narrator.

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Sarah Woodward

Sarah Woodward (born 3 April 1963) is a British actress who won an Olivier Award in 1998 for Tom & Clem and was Tony nominated in 2000 for The Real Thing.

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Simon Callow

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor.

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Sophie Thompson

Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is a British actress.

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St. James Theatre

The St.

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Théâtre Édouard VII

The Théâtre Édouard VII, also called théâtre Édouard VII – Sacha Guitry, is located in Paris between the Madeleine and the Palais Garnier in the 9th arrondissement.

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Théâtre de Paris

The Théâtre de Paris is a theatre located at 15, rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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Theatre Royal, Bath

The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, was built in 1805.

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This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed is a play by Noël Coward. Present Laughter and This Happy Breed are 1939 plays and plays by Noël Coward.

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Todd Haimes Theatre

The Todd Haimes Theatre (previously known as the American Airlines Theatre and originally the Selwyn Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 227 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Tom Conti

Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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Uckfield

Uckfield is a town in the Wealden District of East Sussex in South East England.

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Ursula Howells

Ursula Howells (17 September 1922 – 16 October 2005) was an English actress whose elegant presence kept her much in demand for roles in film and television.

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Victor Garber

Victor Garber, (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian actor.

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Walter Kerr Theatre

The Walter Kerr Theatre, previously the Ritz Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 219 West 48th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Wembley Stadium (1923)

The original Wembley Stadium (originally known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley, London, best known for hosting important football matches.

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William Congreve

William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright, poet and Whig politician.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

1939 plays

• After the Dance (play)
• Caroline Chisholm (play)
• Dansen
• Grouse in June
• How Much Is Your Iron?
• In Good King Charles's Golden Days
• Interval (play)
• Johnson Over Jordan
• Kártyázó asszonyok
• Key Largo (play)
• Ladies and Gentlemen (play)
• Life with Father
• Little Ladyship
• Margin for Error (play)
• Morning's at Seven
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• My Heart's in the Highlands (play)
• Off to Buffalo
• Ondine (play)
• Present Laughter
• Saloon Bar (play)
• The Ages of Man (play)
• The American Way (play)
• The Family Reunion
• The Great Jowett
• The Iceman Cometh
• The Little Foxes
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• The Man in Half Moon Street (play)
• The Philadelphia Story (play)
• The Time of Your Life
• The White Steed
• This Happy Breed
• Thunder Rock (play)

Plays by Noël Coward

• A Song at Twilight
• Blithe Spirit (Ford Star Jubilee)
• Blithe Spirit (play)
• Cavalcade (play)
• Come Into the Garden, Maud (play)
• Cowardy Custard
• Design for Living
• Easy Virtue (play)
• Fallen Angels (play)
• Family Album (play)
• Fumed Oak
• Hands Across the Sea (play)
• Hay Fever (play)
• Home Chat (play)
• I'll Leave It to You
• Look After Lulu!
• Nude with Violin
• Peace in Our Time (play)
• Point Valaine
• Post-Mortem (Coward play)
• Present Laughter
• Private Lives
• Quadrille (play)
• Red Peppers
• Relative Values (film)
• Relative Values (play)
• Semi-Monde
• Shadow Play (play)
• Shadows of the Evening
• Sirocco (play)
• South Sea Bubble (play)
• Star Chamber (play)
• Still Life (play)
• Suite in Three Keys
• The Astonished Heart
• The Better Half (play)
• The Marquise
• The Queen Was in the Parlour
• The Rat Trap
• The Vortex
• The Young Idea
• This Happy Breed
• This Was a Man
• Tonight at 8.30
• Waiting in the Wings (play)
• Ways and Means (play)
• We Were Dancing
• Weatherwise (play)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_Laughter

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