The Vortex - NCS Event
Sir Peter Hall’s new production, starring Felicity Kendal as Florence and Dan Stevens as Nicky is opening at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 20th February with previews until the 25th. The run will end on 7th June. The Society has obtained a reduced block booking of best seats, for the 4.p.m. matinee on Saturday 5th April. The performance runs for two hours and afterwards members will have the opportunity of dining in a private suite of rooms at Kettners Restaurant, which was opened in 1867 by Auguste Kettner, chef to Napoleon III. Kettners is one of the oldest restaurants and champagne bars in London, and something of an institution. Would interested members please get in touch with Barbara Longford - email. The specially reduced best seats cost £22.50. Members may book for the performance only or the supper only, or both.

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...
NCS Discount
During the preview period, from 2nd February to 2nd March, ticket prices will be £29.50 and £25, but NCS members may obtain tickets at a discount. For details of how to do this, please see the members’ pages of this website. 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.

Simon Green at The Jermyn
The Words and Music of Noël Coward Monday 3rd March at 7.30 p.m. As part of the West End Cabaret Season ‘Spotlight’ Series at the Jermyn Street Theatre, Simon Green, accompanied by Musical Director David Shrubsole, perform some classic and lesser-known Coward songs. Simon Green has had a long and varied career in musical theatre and made his cabaret debut at Pizza-on-the-Park in 1997, before playing in New York at The FireBird. In 1999 he was invited back to New York to appear in ‘Mad About the Boy’, the celebration of the centenary at Carnegie Hall. Members may also have seen Simon in ‘Coward, Cocktails and Cabaret’ at Chichester last Summer. Barbara Longford will be making arrangements for a special Society visit including supper at a nearby restaurant, so please e-mail her at if you would like to come. The ticket price is approximately £20, but discounts may be obtained, depending on how many members are interested. More info...

Lunch with Marlene
A play and cabaret by Chris Burgess, starring Kate O’Mara as Marlene, will be performed from Wednesday 26th March to Sunday 27th April, at the New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3. Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 3.30 p.m. London, 1970. The legendary Dietrich phones her great friend Noël Coward in desperation … and they meet for lunch.

‘Poor darling glamorous stars, their lives are so lonely and wretched. Nothing but applause, flowers, and Rolls Royces. It’s too pathetic and wrings the heart’. Noël Coward DIARIES.

But Marlene has news that alarms Noël, news that revives traumatic memories of Marlene’s time spent on the front line during the war, and her painful return to Berlin in 1960. After lunch (and the interval!) Marlene and Noël treat us to a ‘dream concert’. If they had performed together in cabaret - how would it have been? The act will feature performances of their hit songs. The production is directed by NCS Committee member, Stewart Nicholls. Members may recall his production of ‘Over My Shoulder’ about Jessie Matthews. The Society’s Treasurer, Stephen Greenman, will be making arrangements for a group visit, so please e-mail him.