In Noel Coward's semi-autobiographical play Present Laughter, Joel Sandel once again plays Garry Essendine, the matinee idol of the theater in the middle of a mid-life crisis who loves fame but worries that his charms are fading. Also back again is Claire Hart-Palumbo who directed the 2008 Main Street Theater...
In Noel Coward's semi-autobiographical play, Joel Sandel once again plays Garry Essendine, the matinee idol of the theater in the middle of a mid-life crisis who loves fame but worries that his charms are fading.
There are elements of farce in the rapid-paced play, Hart-Palumbo says."There is seduction, there is machination, there is a vamp who is trying to seduce everyone including the main character. There's an ingenue who's badly in love with him. And all of these people are in and out, including his estranged wife who is one of his business partners. They've never quite gotten around to having a divorce but they've been separated for several years. And they are best friends.
"A lot of actors can relate to the fact that it really plays like a musical. Really because Coward's background is in musical theater, a step above burlesque. He comes from that very strong background in British musical theater that's a step below light opera and involves a lot of humor and some elements of French farce and comedy sketches."
Despite all the humor, Coward covered serious issues."It is about the cost of fame and how you can easily get caught up in the hype about yourself and how people who don't know you at all think they know you and make all kinds of assumptions about you based on your public persona," Hart-Palumbo says..
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