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	Psychology of Laughter, Chapter 8
		It is not the economy that is the cause of laughter; on the contrary, the waste of energy may be very great and still the pleasure of the feeling of joy with its accompanying manifestations of laughter may be present.
		Laughter is born of lavishness and dies with thriftiness.
		The laughter that goes with the ludicrous is present when anything regarded consciously as superior and subconsciously as inferior finds its expression of inferiority in the consciousness of the hearer or of the observer.
	www.sidis.net /laughchap8.htm (1535 words)

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		SYNOPSIS andquot;Being cast in the revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter directed by and starring the one and only George C. Scott was probably the biggest break of my career.andquot; -- Nathan Lane The most...
		Present Laughter By Noel Coward Cert: 16 Years and Over Directed by: Joe Izzo Venue: The Manoel Theatre Was...
		all of Sara?s new-found laughter and joy is brought to an abrupt...
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	NewStandard: 12/8/96
		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 six-foot-three-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.
		And this year, with "Present Laughter" seemingly set for a long run, the couple may well be on Broadway at the same time.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-96/12-08-96/e08ae126.htm (821 words)

	BBC - Wiltshire Theatre and Arts - Present Laughter
		Present Laughter starring Rik Mayall runs at the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 24th to Saturday 29th March.
		Set in the glamorous world of the theatre during the Jazz Age, Present Laughter is a gloriously witty portrait of the outrageous 'live life to the full' existence that Noel Coward surely enjoyed in his day.
		Present Laughter starring Rik Mayall runsat Bath's Theatre Royal from Monday 24th to Saturday 29th March 2003.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/entertainment/theatre/presentlaughter.shtml (373 words)

	Paly Voice: Paly play Present Laughter relieves stress with subtle humor
		Lo chose Present Laughter for its carefree and lighthearted feeling, which she feels contrasts nicely with this year's earlier production, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents.
		Lo commented that Coward created Present Laughter in the 1940s, during some tumultuous times when laughter was scarce.
		Another welcome challenge for the cast and crew of Present Laughter is the set, which Lo describes as perhaps the most elaborate one yet.
	voice.paly.net /view_story.php?id=2696 (747 words)

	National Arts Centre - Centre national des Arts
		Present Laughter is a sleek, witty, sophisticated comedy, certain to banish all thoughts of snow for at least a few hours.
		Present Laughter opens in the NAC Theatre on Thursday, 28 February and will run until Saturday, March 16.
		Bob Baker's direction of Present Laughter has been called "authoritative and droll" (Edmonton Sun), and Lorne Kennedy is being hailed as an actor "as supple of mind as of body...absolutely vintage.
	www.nac-cna.ca /en/nacnews/printview.cfm?ID=351 (815 words)

	Eye - House of Mirth - 06.21.01
		Coward made no secret of the fact Present Laughter was written "with the sensible object of providing [himself] with a bravura part." The part is that of Garry Essendine, a middle-aged stage actor and matinee idol in whose studio the action is set, and whose indulgent behaviour propels countless plot complications.
		In Present Laughter, he pre-empts such attacks by creating the comic role of Roland Maule, a serious playwright who anticipates the Angry Young Men playwrights of the 1950s -- epitomized by John Osborne and championed by critic Kenneth Tynan -- for whom Coward was a prime target.
		The world of commercial theatre, struggling playwrights and wannabe actors in Present Laughter is one Noël Coward not only lived in but identified with.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.21.01/arts/presentlaughter.html (1059 words)

	Private Lives and Present Laughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Present Laughter is a bedroom farce, with the same three actors leading the cast.
		Daphne Stillington (Miriam Margolyes), a fey young thing who "forgot her latch key" and must spend the night with Essendine, has a high-pitched voice that is as annoying here as it is in Private Lives, giving credence to Essendine's desire to be rid of her quickly.
		The pacing is so lively and the voices of the actors are so different from each other that no listener will have difficulty keeping track of who is who and what is what, and Coward's sophisticated scripts shine in their hands.
	www.textkit.com /0_0886901227.html (672 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly arts & entertainment - Robinson Crucial, by Scott Renshaw - March 29, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, Robinson plays London stage legend Garry Essendine, a slightly-fading star whose entire life seems to be spent in dressing gowns.
		For most of Present Laughter, Essendine is in a tizzy as people throw themselves at him, but even his expressions of dismay are an act.
		Ah, but Max Robinson … Certainly Present Laughter is an ensemble piece, and it doesn’t fly if the other actors aren’t doing their best with Coward’s words.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2001/arts_010329.cfm (950 words)

	The Boston Herald : Lyric actors find farce is hard to laugh about; "Present Laughter," at the Lyric Stage through ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Start / T / The Boston Herald / February 18, 1998 / Lyric actors find farce is hard to laugh about; "Present Laughter," at the Lyric Stage through March 8.
		Lyric actors find farce is hard to laugh about; "Present Laughter," at the Lyric Stage through March 8.
		"Present Laughter" comes as close as Coward ever gets to French farce, with its clockwork characters, bedroom exposures, slamming doors and a tangled plot that ultimately sorts itself out.
	static.elibrary.com /t/thebostonherald/february181998/lyricactorsfindfarceishardtolaughaboutpresentlaugh/index.html (292 words)

	River Rep at Ivoryton :::: (860) 767-2954 :::: Box 637, Ivoryton, CT 06442-0637
		IVORYTON, CT: The fourth production of River Rep’s 18th summer season is the madcap farce Present Laughter by Noël Coward, the British writer, actor, and composer who gained international fame as a master wit and satirist.
		Present Laughter is Coward at his best – with razor-sharp repartée and barbs aimed at his entourage and at himself as the pampered, adored, but temperamental actor, Gary Essendine.
		Present Laughter was written in 1939 and first produced in 1942 during World War II.
	www.riverrep.com /RRPR2004-10.html (506 words)

	Present Laughter Theatre Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Those traits are all in evidence in this "Present Laughter" (which has been given a sumptuous staging, with a delectable set and costumes by Derek McLane and Ann Roth, that most young directors could only dream of).
		"Present Laughter" was written when Coward was, like Garry, creeping reluctantly into middle age and beginning to register the wear of decades of a life in the theater.
		Presented by David Richenthal and Anita Waxman, in association with Jujamcyn Theaters.
	www.800tixx.com /rvwt_presentl.html (1200 words)

	Edinburgh Guide Theatre review - Present Laughter - Theatre Royal Bath Productions
		Names can cynically be used to sell a show but combining Noel Coward's Present Laughter and Rik Mayall, as its successful and ghastly charmer Garry Essendine, pays off.
		In this production laughter is nearly always present despite a great deal happening on stage or occasional lines flying past too fast.
		Present Laughter, with its doors behind which women and men are secreted, is structured so that each act and scene builds upon the last.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/theatre/reviews/p/present_laughter_trbath.shtml (512 words)

	Revels :: Arts, Entertainment & Ideas
		But, of course, the play's the thing, and Coward certainly had a talent to amuse, as evidenced by the rippling repartee in "Present Laughter" as he details the amorous entanglements of a conceited actor-playwright, a certain Garry Essendine, really none other than Coward himself.
		They were "This Happy Breed" and "Present Laughter." In his diary he noted that "in all probability they will never be produced," but in fact they toured Britain (with the addition of "Blithe Spirit") in 1942 and the trio came to the West End in London in 1943.
		When his musical "Pacific 1860" failed, he appeared again in "Present Laughter" in the West End, when it ran for 520 performances, even though he pulled out once the play was an established hit.
	www.dailytidings.com /2003/news0306/030603r2.shtml (615 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Present Laughter'
		Aaron Lamb's performance anchors SRT's top-notch 'Present Laughter'
		The second, which opened last Friday at the recently refurbished Santa Rosa High School auditorium, is Noël Coward's vigorous farce Present Laughter.
		'Present Laughter' plays at the Santa Rosa High School theater through Aug. 5.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.30.04/laughter-0427.html (632 words)

	Stage Door - for all the Live Theatre news in SW Ontario&Toronto
		As Adele, soprano Elizabeth Beeler proved again what a natural comedienne she is. She gave a delightful performance of “Mein Herr Marquis” in Act 2 but seemed to have lost some of her ebullience by the time of her big audition scene in Act 3.
		Alexander Dobson as Dr. Falke, the Bat of the title, is a fine actor and has a full, rich baritone shown to great advantage in “Brüderlein und Schwesterlein” in Act 2, a rare reflective moment that gave the manic actions of the party a sense of depth.
		So many modern plays present characters as if they live in isolation that it is refreshing to see a play about the need for community.
	www.stage-door.org /reviews/misc2004a.htm (17961 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Present Laughter
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Coward revealed in a 1972 interview, a good 30 years after he wrote "Present Laughter," that Essendine "is me." This particular studio by scenic designer John Iocavelli, however, could never have been Coward's.
		As he wrote it, "Present Laughter" seems to imply that asexuality is preferred to the love that dare not show its face onstage.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117477701?categoryid=33&cs=1 (838 words)

	BBC - Beds, Herts and Bucks Theatre - Wycombe Swan - Present Laughter - Interview with Rik Mayall
		Coward admitted that he wrote this comedy as a vehicle for his own talent, with a lead role in Garry Essendine that was very close to the autobiographical.
		Coward was seen as the 20th century's supreme wit, and while his work may be surrounded with comic frills, he was as serious a dramatist as any this country has known.
		Present Laughter has a serious side too and there are darker elements within it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /threecounties/theatre/2003/02/rik_mayall_interview.shtml (1713 words)

	The 'Present' awaits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lindblade is the man holding the directing reins of TheatreWorks' holiday presentation, which just so happens to be a Noel Coward piece, "Present Laughter," at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.
		"Present Laughter," a frothy farce set in 1939, tells the story of a pampered, popular and overly dramatic thespian who finds himself caught in several embarrassing situations with various admirers.
		In staging "Present Laughter," Lindblade's greatest challenge was finding a cast that could handle the material.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/listings/1998_Dec_4.2NDART04.html (541 words)

	Nathan Lane in Present Laughter
		Present Laughter was previously presented on Broadway in 1946, with Noel Coward in the close-to-the-heart role of Essendine, co-starring with Eva Gabor.
		At least two books of Present Laughter were printed in the 40's.
		An audio book (read by Paul Scofield) of Present Laughter, along with Coward's Private Lives was made in 1989 (ISBN#0886901227).
	www.nathanlane.com /Stage/present.html (247 words)

	Present Laughter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Present Laughter is a (Click link for more info and facts about comedic) comedic play written by (English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)) Noel Coward in 1939.
		The semi- (Click link for more info and facts about autobiographical) autobiographical plot concerns Garry Esseldine, a very successful and egotistical actor.
		The play's title comes from a song in (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)) Shakespeare's (Eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5) Twelfth Night, which urges (Click link for more info and facts about carpe diem) carpe diem.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/present_laughter.htm (152 words)

	Sceneplay Review of "Present Laughter" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I think it was mostly my dislike for farce and therefore with the play itself, and not with its presentation, which led me to find it less than par.
		I found most of "Present Laughter" to be wickedly funny.
		The repartee was witty and delivered with energy and the more pointed barbs were clearly "felt" by their targets.
	www.sceneplay.com /reviews/PresentLaughter (342 words)

	getWokingham - Powered by Wokingham Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The erstwhile TV bad guy is upping the smarm-factor again, this time on stage, and he is currently touring the country in a new production of Noel Coward’s semi-autobiographical play Present Laughter.
		The play is set in the glamorous world of the theatre during the jazz age, and it is a witty portrait of the life that whirled around the playwright in his heyday.
		Present Laughter runs at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre from March 10 to March 15.
	www.getwokingham.co.uk /story.asp?intid=1203 (517 words)

	Review of Present Laughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Indeed he is, and often overacting, as he juggles his various romantic entanglements, their ramifications among his old circle of friends and business associates, and a wide-eyed obsessive (male) fan.
		The comedy of Present Laughter requires a lightness of touch exceptional even by Cowardian standards, but Murphy and his cast largely rise, soufflé-like, to the challenge.
		The artificiality of the set-up (on Will Hargreaves' magnificent Art Deco penthouse set) is discreetly hinted at throughout by Murphy's device of locating the mirror in which everyone fixes their appearance on the "fourth wall", so that actors periodically preen right out at us.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/00055.htm (384 words)

	PRESENT LAUGHTER. Tour to 29 March. :: ReviewsGate.com :: The Theatre Reviews site that covers the UK. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Present Laughter: not just a star vehicle for Rik Mayall, but witty, provocative and highly accomplished in its own right.
		Coward's famously sharp wit's abundant in Present Laughter.
		Garry Essendine, a famous romantic comic actor, delights in his embroidered language and showy gestures whilst at the same time using them to fend off accusation and avoid having to tell the truth.
	www.reviewsgate.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1001 (503 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| Present Laughter
		'APPEARANCES can be deceiving" could be the mantra for Noël Coward's comedy Present Laughter, which takes a wry, and sometimes almost wistful, look at the life of a successful 1930s English stage actor, Garry Essendine (Mark Capri), and the price his fame has wrought.
		And the supporting roles are as juicy as the principal ones--Erin-Kate Whitcomb, in particular, does an excellent turn as the Essendines' curt Nordic maid.
		Present Laughter plays Tuesday at 7:30pm, Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, plus Saturday (Dec. 19 and Jan. 2) at 2pm, Sunday (Dec. 20) at 2 and 7pm, Sunday (Dec. 27) at 7pm and Sunday (Jan. 3) at 2pm, through Jan 3.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.17.98/stage-9850.html (419 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Present Laughter a blast from the past
		In painting this refreshingly candid self-portrait of the utter madness that infuses the cult of celebrity, Coward, in 1942, was decades ahead of his time.
		Centred around the indulged and indulgent lifestyle of Garry Essendine, West End leading man -- a doppelganger for Coward himself, who first played the role -- Present Laughter offers proof positive that our society was star-struck long before Madonna, Julia and Leonardo were even born.
		Unfortunately, in bringing the work to the stage -- it launched Soulpepper's summer season at the Premiere Dance Theatre on Thursday night -- Ziegler and his designer Guido Tondino obviously weren't convinced that their audience was smart enough to draw the proper parallels between Coward's time and our own.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/P/Present_Laughter/2001/06/30/pf-742363.html (399 words)

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