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Fallen Angels

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Noël Coward

Noël Coward’s sublime comedy of manners, in which two married women consider dallying with the same former lover, is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm.

Fallen Angels

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Fallen Angels

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Summary
Best friends now happily married to others, Julia and Jane both once counted the dashing Frenchman Maurice as their lover. Guess who’s back in town and requesting the pleasure of the ladies’ company? Coward at his inimitable best, the story is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm.
History
Fallen Angels premiered at the Globe Theatre, London (now called the Gielgud Theatre) on 21 April 21 1925. The original cast featured Gerald Ames, Tallulah Bankhead, Edna Best, Mona Harrison, Austin Trevor and Arthur Wellesley. On 1 December 1927, the play made its Broadway premiere at the 49th Street Theatre. Directed by Guthrie McClintic, the Broadway production featured Luis Alberni, Gordon Ash, Fay Bainter, Eileen Beldon, Gerald Hamer and Estelle Winwood.
Keywords
Performing Groups
JULIA STERROLL
FRED STERROLL
SAUNDERS
WILLY BANBURY
JANE BANBURY
MAURICE DUCLOS
  • Time Period 1920s
  • Setting The dining/drawing room of the Sterrolls’ flat in London. 1925.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Mild Adult Themes
    • Smoking

Media

“Deliciously tart… pure, lighthearted escapism.” – San Jose Mercury News

“A fine piece of Coward writing: witty, trenchant, superficially frothy but actually questioning the empty lives led by these indolent privileged people.” – The Observer

“[A] giddy comedy of manners… Lurking beneath Coward’s commentary on marriage is a wry aside on the class system.” – The New York Times

“Heavenly… a sublimely entertaining evening at the theatre.” – Broadway World

“Witty and often barbed interchanges… [with] funny lines and zingers aplenty from Coward.” – DC Theater Arts

“Great fun… a fizzy, amusing comedy of manners.” – Berkeleyside

“Deliciously featherweight.” – Variety

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Authors

Noël Coward

Noël Coward

Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924), which feature ...

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