List of Plays by Sir Noël Peirce Coward ノエル・カワードの劇一覧 Wikipedia より詳しい！

Sir Noël Peirce Coward

(December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973)

[Coward (left) with Lydia Bilbrook (centre) and Charles Hawtrey, 1911]

English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance

ノエル・カワードは、ロンドン出身の俳優、作家、脚本家、演出家、劇作家。1910年に子役として初舞台を踏み、いろいろな役をこなした。初期の劇と役は次のものである。

1911 • Prince Mussel in The Goldfish (Various Theatres, London)

• Cannard the pageboy in The Great Name (Prince of Wales, London)

• William in Where the Rainbow Ends (Savoy, London)

1912 • Mushroom in An Autumn Idyll (Ballet - Savoy, London)

1913 • Angel in Hanelle (Liverpool Repertory and Manchester)

• Slightly in Peter Pan (Duke of York's, London)

その後、劇作にも挑戦。第一次世界大戦後の中流階級の気ままな生活や男女関係を描いた恋愛ゲームなど、おしゃれでウィットに富んだ作品で人気を博した。演劇は娯楽と考え、状況とせりふの面白さで見せる戯曲を得意にした。シリアスな人生劇より、洗練された喜劇はイギリスだけでなくアメリカでももてはやされた。彼は、真剣に人を愛したり、国を愛したり、人生に悩んだりすることを極端に嫌った。このカワードの演劇が、日本では最近でもかなり上演されているのはふしぎである。

Year of Writing or Publishing fp: the year when first produced

Year	Original English Title	Japanese Translation
1917 (age: 17)	The Last Chapter (1917), one-act comedy, co-written with Esmé Wynne, first performed in Oct., 1926, for 12 performances.	最終章
1917	Ida Collaborates, one-act comedy, co-written with Esmé Wynne
1918	Woman and Whisky, one-act play, co-written with Esmé Wynne, and performed at the Wimbledon Theatre in Nov. 1917	女と酒
1918	The Rat Trap, play in four acts, first produced in 1926	ネズミ取り
1918	The Last Truck, unproduced
1918	The Impossible Wife, unproduced
1920	I'll Leave It to You, Coward's first full-length comedy in three acts, premiered, at the Gaiety, Manchester, in April, 1920, and performed at Wyndham’s New Theatre, now called The Noël Coward Theatre, London, in July, 1920	おまかせします
1921	Sirocco, play in three acts, written in 1921, revised in 1927 and premiered at Daly's Theatre, London, on Nov. 24, 1927	シロッコ（初夏にアフリカから地中海を越えてイタリアに吹く暑い南風）
1922	The Young Idea (1922), comedy of youth in three acts, premiered at Savoy Theatre, London, in 1923 and produced at Heckscher Theatre, New York, in 1932, for 3 performances	新思想
1922	The Better Half, one-act comedy, first performed in 1922 at Little Theater, London, by the Grand Guignol theatre company, but was never published in 1920s
1922	The Queen Was in the Parlour, written in 1922, but not produced until Aug. 24, 1926, when it was premiered at St Martin's Theatre, London	女王は広間で
1923	Weatherwise, comedy in two scenes, first produced, under Coward's direction, on Sep. 8, 1932, at Malvern Festival Theatre, Worcestershire, England	お天気や
1924	The Vortex, in three acts, an acerbic, hard-hitting work, with themes of drugs and sex. It was premiered at Hampstead's Everyman Theatre in 1924 on Noel's 25th birthday, and also produced in US at Henry Miller's Theater, New York, in 1925, under Coward's direction for 157 performances	渦巻き1977加藤恭平訳（ジャパン・パブリッシャーズ）、渦巻1996常田景子訳（ベニサン・ピット）
1925	Fallen Angels, comedy in three acts, premiered at the Globe Theatre (now, Gielgud Theatre), London, from Apr. 21, 1925 to Aug. 29, and produced at 49th Street Theater, New York, in 1927, for 36 performances	[落ちた天使] 転落の天使たち1970矢口さちえ訳（『悲劇喜劇』）
1925	Hay Fever, comedy, premiered at  Ambassadors Theatre on June 8, 1925 and transferred to Criterion Theatre on Sep. 7, 1925, running for 337 performances, and produced at Maxine Elliott's Theater, New York, in 1925, under the direction of the author, for 49 performances	[花粉症] 花粉熱1977加藤恭平訳、花粉熱1996 鳴海四郎訳（博品館劇場）
1925 (fp)	Easy Virtue, his 16th play in three acts, written in 1924, produced at Empire Theatre, New York, 1925, for 147 performances, and then opened at Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 1926	ふしだらな女（映画タイトル）
1926	Semi-Monde originally Ritz Bar, play in three acts, first produced in 1977 by the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, and the English premiere was produced by the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, in 1979.	セミ・モンド
1926	This Was a Man, comedy in three acts, premiered in London in 1926, with controversy surrounded the play due to its comic way of dealing with the issue of adultery, and produced at Klaw Theatre, New York, in 1926, for 31 performances	これが男だ
1926	The Marquise, comedy in three acts, written in 1926 and premiered at Criterion Theatre, London in 1927, and produced at Biltmore Theatre, New York, in 1927,  for 80 performances	侯爵夫人1984能美武功訳
1927	Home Chat, play in three acts, premiered in London in 1927, but has not been performed for nearly 90 years. It was not greeted well when it was first produced in the West End.	家庭漫話1928山本修二訳（『近代劇全集』）
1929	Bitter Sweet, operetta in three acts and six scenes, opened on July 2, 1929 at Palace Theatre, Manchester, before the London premiere at His Majesty's Theatre on July 18, having run in London for 697 performances, at five different theatres, and produced at two theaters, New York, in 1929-30, music and stage by Coward, for 159 performances	ほろにが人生
1930	Private Lives, thee-act play about unsatisfactory emotional existences, premiered on Aug. 18, 1930, at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, under Coward's direction, and produced at Times Square Theatre, New York, in 1931, under Coward's direction, for 256 performances, and produced at Apollo Theatre, London, in 1944, for 716 performances	私生活1935中村秋一訳（演劇雑誌）、私生活1937森本薫訳（白水社）、焼棒杭に火がついて1976加藤恭平訳、私生活2006飯島早苗訳（青山円形劇場）、私生活2008松岡和子訳（シアタークリエ）
1930	Collected Sketches and Lyrics, Hutchinson, London. (1922) Customs House, Dover (1923) Sorry You’ve Been Troubled (1923) Rain Before Seven (1922) Travelling Light (1924) (1925) (1928) Ignorance Is Bliss (1928) (1928) (1927)	『若気のあやまち』1935飯島正訳（西東書林） 《若気のあやまり》 《ドウヴアの税關》 《お氣の毒さま》 《七時前の雨》 《旅する灯》 《子守あそび》 《あやとり》 《知らざるものは幸なり》 《安寧秩序》 《いや増す苦痛》いや増す苦痛2012仁科余志夫訳（劇団NLT公演）
1931	Cavalcade, play in three parts, first produced in 1931 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, under Coward's direction, for 405 performances. By 1930, Coward was the highest paid author in the world.	[愛国劇] 騎馬隊、大英行進曲1976加藤恭平訳
1932	Design For Living, comedy in three acts, written in 1932 and premiered, at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, in 1933, with Coward staging, running for 135 performances. It was not until 1939 that a London production was presented.	生活の設計
1934	Point Valaine, play in three acts, first produced under Coward's direction at Barrymore, New York, in 1934, for 56 performances, and the in Britain in 1944	ヴァレイン島
1935	Tonight at 8.30 (1935/36), is a cycle of ten one-act plays, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937. Coward himself starred in the 1936 West End premiere. ・We Were Dancing, ・The Astonished Heart, ・Red Peppers, ・Hands Across the Sea, premiered in January, 1936, at Phoenix Theatre ・Fumed Oak, ・Shadow Play, ・Ways and Means, ・Still Life, ・Family Album, ・Star Chamber Tonight at 8.30 opened at the Opera House, Manchester, on Oct. 15, 1935, We Were Dancing, followed by The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers. It then opened in London on Jan. 9, 1936 at Phoenix Theatre. We Were Dancing was added on Jan. 29, and the other three followed later. As in Manchester, We Were Dancing was followed by The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers.	今宵8時半開演 海を越えた親善1936清水達男訳 [いぶした樫の木] 大脱出2001能美武功訳） [静物画] 逢いびき1958内村直也訳、あいびき1971沼沢洽治訳（『現代世界演劇』）あいびき1977加藤恭平訳
1939	Present Laughter, play in three acts, written in 1939 and first produced in Blackpool on Sep. 20, 1942, under the direction of Coward. This play was first staged at the beginning of a 25-week tour of Britain by Coward and his cast. Coward said that in wartime conditions, "the provinces can't come to the West End (London) any more, therefore the West End must go to the provinces".	現在の笑い
1939	This Happy Breed, play in three acts, written in 1939, but, because of the outbreak of World War II, not staged until 1942	幸福な種族
1941	Blithe Spirit, play in three acts, premiered in London in 1941. It created a new long-run record for non-musical British plays of 1,997 performances, and did well on Broadway from 1941 to 1943, running for 657 performances.	陽気な幽霊1976加藤恭平
1947	Peace In Our Time, play in two acts, and first performed at Lyric Theatre in London in 1947	われらの平和
1947	Long Island Sound, comedy adapted from his short story What Mad Pursuit?, written in 1947 and first produced in 1989 (Windsor gala performance)	[ロングアイランドとコネチカット州の間の湾]
1951  (fp)	South Sea Bubble (Island Fling in US), comedy in three acts, written in 1949 but not performed until 1951, and not in its final form until 1956, when the play was moderately successful.	南海泡沫事件 [1720年にグレートブリテン王国で起こった投機ブームによる株価の急騰と暴落]
1951	Relative Values, comedy in three acts, a satire of snobbery in all its guises, produced under the direction of Coward at Savoy Theatre on Nov. 28, 1951, after a short provincial tour, and ran until Jan. 17, 1953	[英国の階級社会を風刺] 平等、平等、平等2001能美武功訳、セレブの資格2007高橋知伽英訳（若尾文子主演・ルテアトル銀座）
1952	Quadrille, romantic comedy in three acts, written in 1952, and premiered at Phoenix, London, in 1952, and produced at Coronet Theatre, New York, in 1954-55, for 150 performances	カドリール [四人が二組みで方形をつくって踊るダンス]
1956	Nude with Violin, light comedy of manners, in three acts, a satire on "Modern Art", criticism, artistic pretension and the value placed on art, written in 1956. Its original London production, opening on Nov. 7, 1956, was successful, running for more than a year	バイオリンを持つ裸婦1961林克己・松原正訳（文学座公演）
1956	Volcano, in two acts, the product of his laidback life in Jamaica, unperformed in his lifetime
1956	South Sea Bubble, revised Island Fling, written and premiered at Lyric, London, in 1956
1959	Look After Lulu! (1959), three-act farce adapted from Georges Feydeau, first produced in 1959 at Henry Miller's Theatre, New York, for 39 performances and then produced in London later the same year
1960	Waiting in the Wings, play in three acts, his fiftieth play, premiered in Dublin on Aug. 8, 1960 at Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at Duke of York's Theatre on Sep. 7, 1960.	出番を待ちながら2010高橋知伽英訳（プラチナネクスト本公演）「ウィングズ」にて2001能美武功訳
1966	Suite in Three Keys, a trilogy, first produced at the Queen's Theatre, London on Apr. 14, 1966 ・A Song at Twilight; ・Shadows of the Evening; ・Come into the Garden, Maud	黄昏の歌2001能美武功訳、秘密は歌う2011高橋知伽江訳 夕闇2013福田逸訳（現代演劇協会、シアターグリーン）
1967	Star Quality (1967), his last play, comedy in three acts, first produced in Bath in 1985

Theoretical Chronology of Noël Coward and his Plays

(musicals and films are excluded)

1917

 Ida Collaborates (written with Esme Wynne) produced on a British tour.

This year he served in the army

1918

 Coward has his second play produced, Woman and Whiskey (written with Esme Wynne).

Wrote The Rat Trap.

1920

 I'll Leave It To You (1919) produced in England (1923 in America).

1921

 Wrote Sirocco.

1922

 The Young Idea (1921) produced in England (1932 in America).

1923

 Played Sholto Brent in The Young Idea in the West End.

1924

 The Vortex (1923) produced with Coward playing Nicky Lancaster.

Fallen Angels enjoyed a West End production.

1925

 Hay Fever (1924) produced in Britain.

The Vortex was produced on Broadway with Coward in the lead role.

1926

 The Rat Trap (1918) and The Queen Was In Her Parlour (1922) produced in Britain.

Wrote This Was A Man produced in America,

The Marquise produced in Britain (America 1927) and Semi-Monde.

Easy Virtue produced at The Duke of York's Theatre.

1927

Home Chat produced in Britain (1932 America).

Sirocco (1921) produced in London and was a resounding failure.

1929

 Directed Bitter Sweet which was produced in the West End and on Broadway.

He also wrote Private Lives this year.

1930

 Private Lives was produced in London with Noël and Gertrude Lawrence as Elyot and Amanda.

 Wrote Post-Mortem.

1931

 Private Lives was produced on Broadway starring Noël and Gertrude Lawrence.

Directed Cavalcade which was also produced this year at Drury Lane in the West End.

1932

 Cavalcade won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

1933

 Design for Living (1932) was produced on Broadway with Coward and The Lunts.

1934

Wrote Point Valaine, produced in America (Britain in 1944).

1935

 Wrote and starred in Tonight At 8.30 in London.

1936

 Tonight At 8.30 was produced in America with Coward.

1939

 Design for Living produced in Britain. Wrote This Happy Breed and Present Laughter but rehearsals interrupted by outbreak of war.

1940

 Wrote Time Remembered (Salute to the Brave) as yet unperformed.

1941

 Blithe Spirit (1941) starts a long run at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End (directed by and starring Coward), and on Broadway.

1942

 Coward took This Happy Breed (1939), Present Laughter (1939) and Blithe Spirit on tour in Britain. London production of Blithe Spirit transferred from St. James' and then Duchess' Theatres where its run totalled 1,997 performances.

1943

 Present Laughter and This Happy Breed were produced in the West End with Coward in the leading roles.

1945

 Brief Encounter was premiered.

1946

Present Laughter produced in America.

1947

 Peace in Our Time (1946) produced.

Appeared in Present Laughter in Britain.

Wrote Long Island Sound.

1948

 Coward made his last appearance with Gertrude Lawrence in Tonight at 8.30 on tour in the US.

He played Present Laughter in French in Paris.

1949

 This Happy Breed produced in America.

1951

Relative Values (1950) produced at the Savoy Theatre (America 1954).

1952

 Quadrille produced at the Phoenix Theatre.

1956

 Nude With Violin (1954) produced at the Globe (now the Gielgud) Theatre.

1958

 Coward made his first post-war Broadway appearance in Present Laughter.

Adapted a Feydeau farce as Look After Lulu produced in America (and Britain 1959).

1960

 Waiting in The Wings (1959) produced.

1963

 Private Lives was revived in Britain, changing a negative critical trend.

1964

 Coward directed High Spirits (based on Blithe Spirit) and received Tony nominations for directing and book writing.

1966

 Coward appeared in the West End for the last time in his last three one act plays Suite in Three Keys (1965).

1974

 Coward in Two Keys (a version of Suite in Three Keys) produced in America.

1977

 First fully stage production of Semi-Monde (1926) at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.

(based on one produced by the Noël Coward Centenary Committee (1999) with additional contributions from Sheridan Morley, Mark Fox, Michael Imison and John Knowles, and more information at http://www.noelcoward.net/html/chronology.html)