Long Island Sound
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 13, 2002
Closed May 25, 2002
Opened May 13, 2002
Closed May 25, 2002
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The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) presents the world premiere of Noel Coward's Long Island Sound. Revolving around an Englishman's observations and experiences as a guest of the smart crowd on the North Shore, the play began life as a 1947 short story, "What Mad Pursuit," but was never staged in Coward's lifetime. Referred to in Coward's diaries, the play was tracked down by archivist Barry Day who had been granted access to Noel Coward's unpublished papers in 1999 in connection with the centenary of the author's birth. Scott Alan Evans directs.
Evening performances begin at 7:00pm on Friday, May 10; Sunday, May 12; and Monday, May 13 (opening night gala.) There is no evening performance on Sunday, May 19. There is an additional performance on Wednesday, May 22 at 2:00pm.
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Noël Coward's Long Island Sound opens and closes with the jaunty strains of one the writer's ditties, "I Like America," but almost everything that happens in between suggests a writer who doesn't like America--or anywhere else--very much. Sir Noël based this 1947 farce on his own 1939 short story "What Mad Pursuit," which in turn was based on a ghastly weekend he endured at the home of a rich Hamptons matron in 1937. As the official account goes, West End producer Binkie Beaumont optioned the play but then thought it "too American" for London
audiences, so into storage it went. It was exhumed half a century later by Coward archivist Barry Day, who handed it to The Actors Company [...]