Relative Values (continued...) Relative Values 6 to 11 Feb - Newton ADS, Powys Theatre, Newtown, Powys 31 Mar - May 6 - The Masquers a FREE TO 10 to 13 May - 8pm, Ruislip Dramatic Society community theatre in Point MEMBERS OF at the Compass Theatre, Glebe Avenue, Ickenham near Richmond, CA, on the East shore THE SOCIETY Ruislip. For further details goto: www.ruislipdramatic.org of the San Francisco Bay at 105, Price £3 ($5) Still Life Park Place, Point Richmond. 22 to 29 Jul - New Venture Theatre, Brighton, E. Sussex Directed by Robert Taylor. Call CHAT This Happy Breed 510-232-4031 to reserve.Fri. and homeAPRIL 2006 - THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NOËL COWARD SOCIETY 1 to 12 Jun - New Era Players Theatre, Newbury, Berkshire Sat. at 8 p.m.through May 6. Design For Living Tickets are $15. 232-4031. 25 to 29 Apr Tower Theatre's production at the Bridewell www.masquers.org MEMBERS MEET DAME JUDI! Theatre, Bride Lane, London EC4 17 to 18 Mar - University Of Central Lancashire Students' In the Rest of the World... sparkling evening awaits Noël Coward Society Members and their guests on Tuesday 6th June Union Drama Society, The Charter Theatre, Preston, 2006 for the new production of Hay Fever at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. We have 60 tickets Lancashire. Director: Christopher Fitzsimmons. Tickets £10 Australia for this star studded evening that includes a good theatre seat and a meeting with Dame Judi conc. £7 BO: 01772 258858 Private Lives A who has agreed to join us for drinks after the performance. This will be a very special occasion Queensland Theatre Co & State Theatre Co of South for the Society with one of the legends of the British theatre. Book early for this outstanding event by Australia, Brisbane 19 Oct 2006 - 14 Nov 2006 returning the enclosed booking form by Monday 29th May 2006. We may never get an opportunity like In North America... Queensland Theatre Co & State Theatre Co of South this again! Dame Judi was last seen on the West End stage in the Royal Shakespeare Company Elizabeth Sharland and Steve Ross Australia, Adelaide 10 Nov 2006 - 2 Dec 2006 production of All's Well That Ends Well at the Gielgud Theatre. At the Haymarket she played opposite National Arts Club lunch on April 4th at noon Steve Ross will New Zealand her fellow Dame, Maggie Smith, in David Hare’s Breath of Life in 2002. Earlier that year, Dench was play Coward and Cole Porter following the theme of April in 17 Mar to 1 Apr - evenings 8pm (except Mondays) Matinee on the same stage playing in Hall’s revival of Kaufman and Ferber’s The Royal Family in which, as Paris and Ms Sharland's new book repeated at the New York Sundays 2pm. $21 Adult, concession prices available. Venue: with Hay Fever, she played a grandiose actress steeped in theatrical tradition. She is the winner of four Sheet Music Society at the National Women's Republic Club 16th Ave Repertory Directed by Margaret Douglas. Olivier Awards, including two in the same year - a feat that no other actress has ever accomplished. Her on at 3 West 51st -along from the 21 Club on Saturday April long and illustrious stage and film career has made her one of the world’s most celebrated actresses. 8th at 2.p.m. Full details and costs for the evening are shown on the enclosed booking form. Richard Rose (Samuel French in London has copies of the book ‘A AFTERTHOUGHT Theatrical Feast in Paris’ ideal for those going on the Paris trip on April 23rd.) STEPHEN FRY AND ALAN RICKMAN Quoted from a piece widely distributed across the media: Blithe Spirit SUPPORT SOCIETY’S OXFORD CONFERENCE 21 Apr to 6 May Niagra Falls Music Theatre Society, Niagara In Britain she is treated with the reverence accorded a Falls, Ontario. The aim of the conference is to celebrate national treasure. ‘Future Definite – a Celebration 28 Mar to 1 Apr - University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Coward’s work in a thoughtful and incisive way, In America, it seems, Judi Dench is simply too old. The of the work of Noël Coward’ 21 Apr to 6 May - Niagara Falls Music Theatre Society, helping to ensure that it is available to future first lady of British film and theatre was snubbed by three of Niagara Falls. St. Catherine’s College, Oxford generations. More in the style of a literary the leading network talk shows because she is regarded as 6 to 8 Apr - Erindale Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd September, 2006 festival, rather than a colloquium, our intention over the hill, the film producer, Harvey Weinstein, said. Hay Fever BOOKING COMMENCES NOW! is to have fun and to provide a conference which Dame Judi, 71, is doing the sofa circuit of American Noël himself might have enjoyed. 3 Nov to 4 Dec - CenterStage, Baltimore College hank you to all those members who studios to promote her new film, Mrs Henderson Presents. Events will include a Parkinson-style chat 5 to 28 Jan - Nicola Cavendish directs at Presentation House returned the ‘expression of interest’ form But although her performance as the well-heeled purveyor show, hosted by Alan Farley, radio producer (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver). BO: 604-990-3474. enabling the Society to go ahead with this of wartime titillation may have earned her an Oscar from San Francisco and co-author of our Music 19 to 28 Oct - Borelians Community theatre, Port Perry, conference. Over fifty of you agreed, in nomination as best actress, she is "out of step" with the T Index: a film show of Noël’s Ontario principle, to attend and this enabled prime-time TV demographic. Mr Weinstein told New York home movies: a Literary 16 to 18 May - Armbrae Academy, Halifax, Nova Scotia. us to approach the The Noël magazine that Dame Judi was turned down for interviews by walking tour of Oxford: a Private Lives Coward Foundation for sponsorship. NBC's Today show and ABC's Good Morning America and special Black Tie/Tuxedo 2 Mar to 1 Apr - The Seattle Repertory Theatre, Washington. The Foundation has agreed to The View. Saturday evening dinner 28 Apr to 6 May - Atlin Theatre Group Society, Atlin, BC provide funding for ten drama “They said she didn't fit their demographics. I told that followed by cabaret: readings Oct. 6-Nov. 30 - Wayne State University Theater, Detroit students to be with us throughout to my mother, who was pretty offended,” the Miramax chief from Noël’s letters by 16 to 18 and 23 to 25 Salem Repertory Theatre, Cyrus Reed the weekend and to entertain us on executive said. “What do they think, 25-year-old people professional actors, written Ballroom, Reed Opera House, 189 Liberty St. NE. 7:30 p.m. Friday evening. The inclusion of so can't watch 70-year-old people? The insanity of youth. It and narrated by Barry Day. with 2 p.m. matinees Feb. 19 and 26. many young people will help us to also assumes none of us like our families.” There will be a bookshop Tickets are $17, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. BO: ensure that the future is indeed Miramax Films is distributing Mrs Henderson, set in the selling Coward volumes (503) 302-8907. definite. Windmill theatre in London's Soho in the 1930s and 1940s. currently published by Present Laughter Vice President, Stephen Fry is But while this may have won her approval at the highest Methuen and books from our 21 Sep to 7 Oct - Stage Centre Productions, Scarborough, taking one of the sessions and Alan level of the US entertainment business, the television talk own collection of first Ontario Rickman has agreed to conduct a shows - which can make or break a release - found editions and classic Coward Design For Living Master Class with the students; themselves forced to deliver a flurry of embarrassing volumes. A computerised Jun 15 to Nov 18 - Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ont. - The Shaw subject to his availability. Our defensive statements after Mr Weinstein's remarks. sound system storing nearly Festival opens its 45th season. scintillating Saturday night cabaret The Hall at St. Catherine’s every known notable recording will be performed by Steve Ross (from New York) With thanks to Samuel French UK and Canada (Play Publishers and Author's Representatives), Ken Starrett (US), of Coward’s work and an extensive collection of and Sheridan Morley & Michael Law. Speakers Lisa Foster at Alan Brodie Representation (Professional Productions) and other NCS members. Coward’s films, television and radio broadcasts and participants include Barry Day, Dr. Sos Eltis Unless otherwise stated all images and text are copyright to NC Aventales AG on VHS, DVD and online storage. (Fellow and Tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford), (Successor in title to the Estate of the Late Sir Noël Coward). Delegates will be able to check in on Friday Jeremy Sams, Geoffrey Johnson, Alan Farley, All correspondence should be sent to: The Noël Coward Society, 29 Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, 1st September from 2 – 3.30 p.m, with tea from Marcy Kahan and Dominic Vlasto. NR6 6TB, UK email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1603 486 188 3.30 – 4.p.m and sessions and events will Page 12 continue throughout the weekend, with the final form included with this newsletter and roductions are shown for the UK, USA and Canada and for the rest of the world. Professional one from 11 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. on Sunday 3rd return it, with your deposit (a cheque companies are shown in red.