NOEL COWARD - LOST NOEL COWARD PLAY DISCOVERED

LOST NOEL COWARD PLAY DISCOVERED

A lost play written by the legendary NOEL COWARD has been discovered in the British Library. The one-act play was discovered by academics researching a book on the playwright who died in 1973. Comedy The Better Half was last performed in 1992, but was never published. It focuses on a husband and wife and her best friend. Professor Mike Wilson, who found the play, says, "The husband and wife are in an unhappy relationship and he is about to embark on an affair, but he is an honourable man and refuses to consummate it. "They are trying to keep it away from the wife but unknown to him, she already knows and is trying to encourage it because she knows they are unhappy. It's quite unconventional." A London theatre company, called The Sticking Place, is planning to perform the play later this year (07).