NCS Member - Marcy Kahan's new Plays:
Friday, May 2nd 2008: R4 Afternoon play: 2:15 p.m.
The Playwright & The Grammarian by Marcy Kahan, starring Alison Pettitt and Penelope Wilton (a comedy for BBC R4 about how BBC R4 can change your life). Dir. Gordon House. Available online for 7 days: Web... - select Arts & Drama - select Afternoon Play.
Saturday, May 3rd 2008: BBC World Service World Drama: 8 p.m. Nostrovia Fitzrovia: A Black Cat Murder Mystery - starring Stephen Mangan and Jason Chan. Dir. Marion Nancarrow. (Part of the 2008 International Worldplay radio festival). Available online for 7 days: Web... Saturday, May 3rd 2008: R 4 : 7 p.m. Repeated Sunday May 4th at 5:40 p.m. From Fact to Fiction: a 15-minute play based on the week's headlines. Available online for 7 days: Web... - select A-Z programmes - select From Fact to Fiction

Voyages of celebrity travellers found!
Some went in search of fame and fortune, others craved an exciting new life in a distant land. For the first time, the passenger records for every person who embarked on a long-distance ocean-liner journey between 1890 and 1960 have been released online – and there are many famous names among them. Stars including actors Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, film director Alfred Hitchcock and playwright Noel Coward can all be found among the lists of people setting out for new lives in the 1940s and 1950s More...

Coward in California
Tonight at 8:30, Part three...
NCS member Kathy Williams reviews the U.S. Première of The Better Half  by the Antaeus Theatre Company, North Hollywood and provides an interview with Jeanie Hackett, Co-Artistic Director of Antaeus. More...

Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter
Features in new West End venue
Discount for NCS members!
This exciting venture has been created from the play ‘Still Life’, the screenplay of Brief Encounter and also Noël Coward’s music. The producers were looking for a unique space for their venture and hit upon the Cineworld cinema on the Haymarket, with its Italian and Spanish renaissance front-of-house detail. The building was originally The Carlton Theatre, built in 1926 and Westminster City Council has agreed to a change of use back from cinema to stage. Naomi Frederick plays Laura and Tristan Sturrock, Alec. The leading lady will play Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto - a feature from the film - and there will be a combination of imagery on stage and on screen. Press announcement of the show...

Performances are at 8.p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, with a 3.p.m. matinee on Wednesdays and Saturdays and Sunday at 4.p.m. More...

The Society’s Treasurer, Stephen Greenman, is making arrangements for a group visit, so if you would like to come please e-mail Stephen.

Amateur Theatre Highlights
Blithe Spirit
The Electric Theatre in Guildford
May 14th - 17th Merrow Dramatic Society, The Electric Theatre, Guildford, Surrey.
BO: 01483 444789 Web

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Chairman of the Society:Barbara Longford
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Coward Memorabilia
As you can imagine we often get enquiries concerning the value of Coward memorabilia. Unfortunately we are not in a position to assist non-members who wish to know the market value of such items. The best way to test the market is to place items in an online auction with a reserve price that you would find acceptable.

Stephen Marshall Painting Auction at Horners
This painting by Noël of a Swiss scene will be auctioned at Horners in Norfolk on Saturday 10th May at Acle, Norfolk - Click picture for a larger version. Find out More...

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At last the first of two galleries of photographs from the Coward Birthday celebrations in London and New York. London Gallery Pics...
Hear Barry Day's toast to Sir Noël and Joyce Breach sing - introduced by Michael Hepworth at The Ivy.
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The Brief Encounter Rose

Last year we had floral news from NCS member Kerry Hailstone - today we publish the outcome. The Noel Coward Appreciation Society of South Australia is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its beginnings in 2009 and the 70th anniversary of Noel Coward's visit to Adelaide in December 2010. To mark these events, they are releasing a commemorative NCAS rose. They have been liaising with Corporate Roses, the Australian agent for Meilland International and developed a rose for release in 2009 for sale through the Meilland rose growers network throughout Australia as well as through the Noel Coward Appreciation Society of South Australia. The rose is beautifully perfumed in an attar of roses style. The launch in 2009 will be in association with Australian Red Cross. Final arrangements are currently under discussion. The pink rose is called 'Brief Encounter' .