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	Metroactive Stage \| 'Present Laughter'
		Essendine is London's most popular stage actor, an outrageously vain, pampered, middle-aged philanderer who tries to blunt his mounting panic at aging by sleeping with a parade of star-struck young women.
		Essendine is so addicted to larger-than-life theatrics that he can't ever manage to stop the performance, using comically large and stagy gestures and making overly dramatic pronouncements ("There's something sad about happiness, isn't there?") even when at home among his affectionate collective of faithful colleagues and business partners.
		Throughout the play, Essendine is an emotional wreck, preparing for a career-capping tour of the theaters of Africa, a venture that terrifies him almost as much as the thought of growing old and losing his famous charm.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.30.04/laughter-0427.html (632 words)

	Chico News and Review - Fine Arts - May 6, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is morning, and the young Daphine Stillington (Shannon Foy), apparently one of many "groupies" orbiting Essendine (as the play progresses, this indeed appears to be the case--the ladies and the gentlemen love him), surprises and annoys Essendine's maid, butler and secretary with her presence.
		Essendine simply cannot say no. Instead he puts her in the spare room and tries to forget her.
		His Essendine was ridiculous, parading in shiny red pajamas and a variety of house robes.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2004-05-06/finearts.asp (671 words)

	Daily Info - Your Guide to Oxford, UK
		Essendine is a highly successful actor, but he lives his whole life as if he is on stage.
		Mayall as Essendine is sympathetic and convincing, full of transparent dramatic gestures and comedy, concealing a great deal of loneliness and frustrations about his social world and duties.
		Essendine is forty, no longer young, but struggling to come to terms with looming middle age.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/pl.htm (518 words)

	Gary Essendine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		n "Present Laughter," written in 1939, but first produced in 1942, Cowar's mouthpiece is Garry Essendine, a successful actor and ladies' man, whose self-satisfaction is briefly shaken when a young would be playwright challenges the aging (fortyish) star as a hollow charmer, only to fall helplessly under his spell like everyone else.
		oward as Essendine gets to defend the proposition that life is essentially a performance: "I'm always acting," he tells one of his admirers.
		f course, Garry Essendine is me," Coward told an interviewer in 1972.
	www.hendrix.edu /TheatreArts/essendine.htm (104 words)

	Revels :: Arts, Entertainment & Ideas
		One of Essendine's overnight ladies is Daphne Stillington and Kim Rhodes fetchingly portrays the young star-struck aspiring actress whose head is turned by the experience.
		Not only is she cool and elegant and poised, but she and Essendine engage in a battle of banter that is Coward at his best; one of the most entertaining interludes in the play.
		Essendine believes the whole business of sex is vastly overrated, "I enjoy it for what it's worth and fully intend to go on doing so for as long as anybody is interested, and when that time comes that they're not, I shall be perfectly content to settle down with an apple and a good book!"
	www.dailytidings.com /2003/news0306/030603r2.shtml (615 words)

	JS Online: Vibrant humor imbues 'Laughter'
		From the moment Moses, as Essendine, first emerges from his bedroom in his pajamas, his stiff body listing to one side, he sets a vibrant comic tone that permeates this production.
		Essendine has just awakened after a night of partying, and the young woman who talked her way home with him is awaiting him in his living room.
		The slippery Essendine reminds her that she is half his age and moves on to others, including a longtime friend who also forgets her house key one night.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=37232&format=print (499 words)

	, Present Laughter (Audio Theatre Series), Present Laughter (Audio Theatre Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Essendine enjoys all the perks of stardom, including women who can't resist him, fawning fans, and late nights of partying, followed by late mornings of undisturbed sleeping.
		One of them, Joanna, is married to Essendine's friend Henry, but she has had a long-standing affair with another friend, Morris, and she seduces Essendine in the course of the play.
		In the midst of all this deception, a young playwright also arrives, wanting to know if Essendine has read his play, at the same time confessing to having an obsession with Essendine himself, before he is shuttled off to the office when yet another unexpected visitor arrives.
	node2326.bookshop.com.ru /27/2326/item/1580810306.htm (647 words)

	Essendine flowers - Flower delivery in Essendine by local florists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	florists.flowersdirectonline.co.uk /Rutland/Essendine.htm (361 words)

	Review: 'Present Laughter' a little askew, but some is Noel Coward's fault \| BonitaNews.com
		Essendine has an endless parade of women traipsing almost nonstop through his oh-so-glittering Roaring Twenties life.
		Essendine is a man who requires an audience so that he can exist, a self-admitted performer in every aspect of his life who can’t seem to have a genuine moment outside the spotlight.
		Essendine, as played by Paul Graffy, is a perfect stereotype of the self-involved actor enchanted with his every move.
	www.bonitanews.com /news/2006/apr/21/review_present_laughter_little_askew_some_noel_cow (892 words)

	The UW Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Essendine constantly flails in the wind of his inversely angered and adoring guests voices.
		Essendine dispels late-night trysts in the morning by saying goodbye without ever appearing to mean it, adheres to his friend's social predicaments in the afternoon by saying something he is soon to forget, and conjures grander problems for himself and his friends every evening by preparing another late-night tryst.
		Critics for more than half a century have assumed Noel Coward's main character to be his impression of himself: charismatic, adored, unfaithful, forgetful and much better in the theatre than in life.
	thedaily.washington.edu /ae.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=wnpage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=10680&-search (380 words)

	Present Mirth, Present Laughter - The Daily Utah Chronicle - RED Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As the actor faces his 40s, a tendency to overact and the loads of devoted fans who always seem to arrive just before he goes to bed, Essendine’s estranged wife suggests toning down the “present mirth.” However, a simple life does not appear to be in store for a character Coward based on himself.
		As Essendine approaches insanity over trite social inconveniences, his wife orchestrates the elaborate farcical situations that make this play fascinating to watch.
		He leaps over couches, chases Essendine into rooms and invades in the middle of the night just to be near the actor.
	www.utahchronicle.com /news/2001/03/22/RedArts/Present.Mirth.Present.Laughter-57515.shtml (541 words)

	Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg185 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Edward DESPENCER [Parents] was born on 24 Mar 1335/1336 in, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
		Elizabeth De BURGHERSH [Parents] was born in 1342 in Of, Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England.
		Thomas Le DESPENCER was born on 22 Sep 1373 in, Essendine, Rutland, England.
	www.ishipress.com /pafg185.htm (1164 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Culture \| Present Danger \| 2004-11-10 \| Printable
		The predatory Joanna, Hugo's wife, is actually Natasha, a woman who claimed to be a princess of the Romanovs and married Jack after Noel gave him the boot.
		Essendine, who differs from Coward only in his heterosexuality, claims that he just wants some peace and quiet, preferably without all these starstruck youngsters foisting themselves on him.
		The play opens with a pretty young thing Essendine brought home the night before getting the treatment from Essendine's valet, housekeeper, and secretary; sweet Daphne doesn't realize that there's a well-oiled mechanism for dealing with pretty young things who show up in the living room in the master's pajamas, demanding breakfast.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2004-11-10/culture/theater_print.html (1288 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly arts & entertainment - Robinson Crucial, by Scott Renshaw - March 29, 2001
		Most troubling of all, Essendine finds himself at one corner of a romantic square when Joanna Lyppiatt (Christa Scott-Reed)—the wife of one of Essendine’s business associates—sets her sights on Essendine after already having an affair with another one of Essendine’s business associates.
		Essendine’s job, meanwhile, is to be all things to all people, while lamenting it every step of the way.
		It’s a performance captured in a moment when Essendine asks Monica to tell him whether he has ever “overacted.” When she answers “yes,” Essendine staggers as though struck by a blunt instrument, clutching his chest like Fred Sanford on his way to meet Elizabeth.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2001/arts_010329.cfm (950 words)

	The Bulmer Family of York 1900 - 1100 - pafg16 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		was born on 24 Mar 1335/1336 in, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
		He was christened on 24 Mar 1335/1336 in, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
		was born on 22 Sep 1373 in, Essendine, Rutland, England.
	www.myfamilies.co.uk /bulmer/pafg16.htm (552 words)

	Solicitors in Essendine Rutland England UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Solicitors in Essendine Rutland England UK Solicitors Online in Essendine Rutland, England UK Welcome to Solicitors-England.co.uk, the place to find law firms in your area that can help with your legal issue.
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	www.solicitors-england.co.uk /England/Rutland/Essendine.htm (187 words)

	Essendine Noticeboard
		I am researching my family history and my great grandmother Elizabeth Hallam was from Essendine and she married Thomas Sharpe c 1870 and they went to live in Baston, Lincs.
		I visited Essendine on 12th August 2006 and looked around the outside of the church and was delighted to find my ancestor came from such a nice village.
		If you live in Essendine and would like to contribute to these pages please call 01572-756565 or e-mail us for more info.
	www.rutnet.co.uk /pp/location/guestbook.asp?ID=18 (518 words)

	Sceneplay Review of "Present Laughter" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Protagonist, playwright, and playboy Garry Essendine, was played exceptionally well by James Grana.
		Essendine, Grace Butler did a good job as well.
		I remember the costumes were appropriate and added to the characters.
	sceneplay.antistatic.com /reviews/PresentLaughter (342 words)

	Patrol officer for new Essendine crossing to be appointed
		Patrol officer for new Essendine crossing to be appointed
		Patrol officer for new Essendine crossing to be appointed (21/02/2006)
		"Everyone was terribly shocked by the death at Essendine but it was crucial that the children were being looked after at the crossing and our City Guardians have stepped in and done an excellent job," he said.
	www.westminster.gov.uk /councilgovernmentanddemocracy/councils/pressoffice/news/pr-3129.cfm (273 words)

	Essendine, Lincolnshire
		The village church at Essendine, eight miles south west of Bourne, is tucked away off the A6121 and is easily missed for it is accessible only by a track.
		It is a tiny building dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and dates back to Norman times when it may have been the chapel of a castle that once stood nearby because traces of the moat and earthen fortifications survive.
		The story of Essendine and its connections with Bourne during the railway era
	homepages.which.net /~rex/bourne/essendine.htm (283 words)

	Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) - Reports Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Essendine Primary School is a primary and nursery school for boys and girls.
		The age range of the pupils is 3-11.
		Essendine Primary School was last inspected on 27 Sep 2004.
	www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=101111 (177 words)

	Arts \| Present Laughter
		What Callow lacks in looks, he makes up for in naughtiness, showing in Essendine - a man who just can't stop acting or screwing around - that inside every successful, charming man is a little boy screaming to be let out.
		He doesn't quite stamp his foot, but it is a close thing as he bounces on the pouffe and squirms when his ex-wife, Liz, gives him a ticking off like a prep school matron who has discovered her charge out of bed after lights out.
		Callow's Essendine is not so much Brad Pitt going to seed as a balding, portly Peter Pan who just can't grow up and take responsibility for his own behaviour.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329468178-110430,00.html (301 words)

	21ST GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		was born on 24 Mar 1335/36 in, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
		He was christened on 24 Mar 1335/36 in, Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
		He was married to Elizabeth De BURGHERSH between Feb 1354 and Aug in Essendine, Rutlandshire, England.
	www.sammywilliams.com /d4100.html (162 words)

	Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Written as a vehicle for Coward himself, the play revolves around Garry Essendine, a slightly ageing, dressing-gowned, temperamental prima donna of an actor and his casual love affairs requiring the most careful handling both by his secretary and his manager.
		It is vital and brilliant theatre, a summary of Coward's preoccupations with vanity, charm selfishness and the triumphant ego.
		The part of Garry Essendine is genuinely regarded to be autobiographical.
	www.magplayers.org.uk /present.htm (1004 words)

	Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Present Laughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This "flaw" is by design so it won't get in the way of the farcical antics perpetrated by and on members of the "family" of these supposed closely bound friends.
		I howled when Essendine comments to his twenty-one year old "one-night-stand" Daphine, "Youth never understands." She responds wide-eyed, "I don't get what you mean." However the number of characters and their juxtaposition to one another doesn't allow the play to really get going until the Second Act.
		This scene with pompous Essendine and his dearest friend's lithesome, sensual wife stands as a polished jewel.
	www.ashlandtheaterreview.com /PresentLaughter.html (882 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Present Laughter (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, and touring)
		As his flat is invaded by admirer after admirer, Callow's Essendine gives one overacted performance after another - and, in designer Paul Farnsworth's fl and white art-deco flat, he is surrounded by photos of his past performances (in a clever autobiographical touch, photos of Callow in his own previous performances).
		Essendine is all exterior and no interior - and Callow achieves a mounting melancholy as it becomes clearer and clearer that Essendine's performance has swallowed the identity of its performer.
		You sense that this sadness of vapidity was as much Coward's as it is Essendine's; the laughter, like Essendine's identity, is one hundred percent presented.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/presentlaughterRW-rev.htm (475 words)

	Essendine, Rutland
		Essendine, a village and a parish in Rutland, contiguous to Lincoln, and on the G.N.R., 4 1/4 miles NNE from Stamford, with a station on the railway, and two branch lines strike off hence to respectively Stamford and Bourn.
		The church is Norman, and has an elaborately sculptured Norman tympanum over south door, representing the Salvator Mundi in glory.
		One of the titles of the Marquis of Salisbury is Baron Essendine of Rutland, whose ancestors owned the property up to 1812, it having formerly belonged to Queen Elizabeth's great lord treasurer, Burghley.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Rutland/Essendine.html (179 words)

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		And it is Frank Langella, back on Broadway in Coward's ''Present Laughter'' at the Walter Kerr Theater, playing Garry Essendine, Coward's alter ego, man of the theater, feckless lover and something of a spoiled child in a 6-foot-3-inch body.
		In ''Present Laughter,'' Coward's world-weary man of the theater is besieged by employees, lovers, his ex-wife and a crazed fan, all wanting something from him and therefore dancing attendance on his every whim.
		His admirers come and go, even hide behind closed doors, while Essendine tries to fend them off and get ready for a trip to Africa, pausing frequently to check his reflection in the mirror.
	www.franklangella.net /files/interviews/PLintfull.txt (834 words)

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