Noel Coward in Two Keys

Two works by Noel Coward

Come Into the Garden, Maud: A view of the haute monde, tempered by having the man and wife beAmericans this time. She is a social climber, while he is a rich cornhusker who couldn’t care less about society. While the wife is entertaining a high and mighty prince downstairs, the husband is entertaining a threadbare princess upstairs. It doesn’t take long for the husband to realize he has more in common with royalty than his wife does.

A Song at Twilight: One of Coward’s late plays, A Song at Twilight is a full-length play about a famous elderly writer, reputedly based on Somerset Maugham, who faces blackmail at the hands of an ex-lover threatening to expose his secret past.