The Noel Coward Collection

Posted on 2012/04/06 19:12:54 (April 2012).

[Tuesday 27th March 2012]
I'd ordered a box set of Noel Coward DVDs on Sunday evening, which arrived today. So I watched something from the first disc this evening - a 1969 TV play version of The Vortex.

It wasn't actually very good. The acting was pretty hammy, and this is one of Coward's more serious plays so there aren't a lot of witticisms either.

Although I did glean some mild amusement from the array of synonyms for "very" supposedly used by the upper classes of yesteryear. "It really is terribly, awfully, frightfully, horribly, wickedly, monstrously good.". I might be paraphrasing there slightly.

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