English Touring Theatre

Tonight at 8:30 is a collection of nine one-act plays by the inimitable Noel Coward, performed together for the first time in the UK, since Coward starred in them in 1936. From vaudeville to satire, from broad farce to intricate comedy of manners, from melodrama to romance, these plays span the full, glorious range of Coward's writing.

You can peep through your fingers at the Red Peppers chaotic music-hall show, witness a bankrupt couple use all Ways and Means to scheme their way out of debt, and break your heart along with Laura in the famous Still Life, the original version of the film Brief Encounter.

This is a unique opportunity to see a stellar ensemble perform all nine of these plays. Nuffield Associate Blanche McIntyre (2013 Best Director Nominee, The Seagull - UK Theatre Awards) returns to direct her second production in the season.

Come once, twice or three times – or for the most adventurous, make a day of it and see them back to back with meal intervals in between.

The plays: We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Fumed Oak, Ways and Means, Still Life, Family Album, Hands Across The Sea and Shadow Play.