About the Play:

Ways and Means is a one-act comedy by Noel Coward. A madcap comedy about a young couple whose luck seemingly runs out, but returns with style and grace.

Ways and Means focuses on a down-on-their-luck couple of Riviera socialites who sponge off their high-society friends. In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honour.

Ways and Means is one of the Tonight At 8:30 series of short plays produced to lusty laughter and hearty applause in London, New York, Boston, and Chicago.

Cast: 4 women, 5 men.

About the Playwright:

Sir Noël Coward (1899-1973) was one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century. Also a composer, director, actor and singer, he first made his name as a playwright with The Vortex, in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, and Blithe Spirit. He was knighted in 1970.