Fallen Angels

Name: Fallen Angels
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Noel Coward
ISBN: 9781580814492

Author: Noel Coward

Narrator: Annette Bening, Joe Mantegna, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 01/06/2001

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman. Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe Mantegna, John Rubinstein and Kristoffer Tabori.

About Noel Coward

Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sketchbook on February 14, 2023

Julia and Jane have been married ladies for five years. They suddenly learn that a saucy lover from the past is in town and wants to see them. Yes, they both had sex with him and it was great fun. Their husbands are away on a sporty weekend and they are itching to restart...well, whatever. What seem......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on April 12, 2024

Okay, this may not be my favourite Noel Coward, but it was still very entertaining. I was especially fond of the end, which gave me a good laugh. Performances in the LA Theatre Works production all delivered. Definitely worth the read!......more

Goodreads review by Jake on May 15, 2021

Got to see a stage reading of this my friends put on. Probably my favorite Coward! So damn funny. And she’s much better than say Wildes Ernest. The pace to this is much more my style. Plus my friends are so talented it’s intimidating. Love love love high end classic British comedy. Genius.......more

Goodreads review by Anton on February 19, 2024

Luchtig als een zeepbel, deze situatiekomedie van Noël Coward, die als een minder scherpe Oscar Wilde de frustraties en spelletjes in het huwelijk op de hak neemt. De confrontatie tussen de 2 vriendinnen die zowel zusters in de zonde zijn als dodelijke concurrenten is geestig opgebouwd, de ontknopin......more