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...Noel – himself a poet and painter – was one of that band of educated and charged young men swept up in the Philhellene movement of the time....
...Business success as a young man allowed Hayden to support his parents, who struggled to find their feet after returning to London with nothing....
...‘Player Kings’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, April 1-June 22, then tours, playerkingstheplay.co.uk. ‘Oedipus’, Wyndham’s Theatre, London, October 4-January 5, oedipustheplay.com...
...Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £30, 656 pages...
.... ★★★★☆ To January 13, nationaltheatre.org.uk The Homecoming Young Vic, London Another expert in creating unsettling liminal spaces was Harold Pinter. The Homecoming (1964) is a case in point....
...Williams is electric as Florence, a bored socialite terrified of ageing, whose solution to the passage of time is to hook up with young men....
...While in 2009, Assassin’s Creed II chose Renaissance Italy as its setting, with a young Leonardo da Vinci as its ideas man, Mirage reflects a historical shift away from western Europe....
...We were joined at the next table by a glamorous couple and their two young children....
...We spoke to Noel Quinn, the chief executive of HSBC. He said that he’s still confident in the future of economic growth in China....
...Noel Pearson, a leading indigenous rights campaigner, was still hopeful that the referendum could succeed, making his final pitch to voters from Perth on Thursday....
...The Motive and the Cue opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on December 9. Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Then the French federation’s president, Noël Le Graët, stepped down after a state inspectorate accused him of mis-steps including “inappropriate behaviour . . . towards women”....
...Options range from humble crumble at British pub chain Young’s to ornate pavlovas at The National Gallery’s Ochre....
...There she encountered Tallon, a young, gay, working-class man from Coventry, who had worked for the royal household since he was 15. They soon became close....
...Previous acts and artists include The 1975, Katy Perry, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Janet Jackson....
...Patriots Noël Coward Theatre, London It feels sadder second time around. Peter Morgan’s mighty play Patriots had its premiere at the Almeida a year ago, with the war in Ukraine a few months old....
...It seemed to be Italy’s own riposte to Noël Coward’s popular song, about how only “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”....
...Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape)Ever since Barrett’s short-story collection Young Skins appeared in 2014, the publishing world has been awaiting his novel....
...HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn has consistently denied there is any indication that Ping An’s campaign is politically motivated....
...wildlife photographers, not the tech investor, the brand guru, the ethics professor or the asset manager; not the Belgians, the Americans, the Russians, the Canadians, the German, the Ukrainian; not the young...
...Scenes seem to flow into each other; men cluster and shout; Blanche’s dead young husband (Jabez Sykes) haunts the action....
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London Two winter openings for James Graham’s terrific play: one in 2021 at the Young Vic and a West End transfer this year that was, if anything, even better....
...It is bad luck that Noel Bouley fell ill just before the first night, necessitating a last-minute stand-in from Roland Wood, who sang Scarpia while Bouley acted the role....
...Until his ambitious young cousin Mohammed bin Salman came along. The Guardian chronicles his unexpected ascent to power in this long read....
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s brilliant play Best of Enemies had its premiere at London’s Young Vic in 2021: a year that had been rocked by the attack on the US Capitol....
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