Design for Living
Design for Living Author: Noël Coward
First Performance: 1933, Cleveland, Ohio
Published: 1933
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: Paris, London, and New York, 1930s
Cast: 6m, 4f
Gilda is an interior decorator who has two lovers, the painter Otto Sylvus and the playwright Leo Mercuré. At first we see her with Otto, but when Leo comes back to her, Otto leaves in a fit of jealousy. When he returns, Gilda decides that she can take no more of the men's possessiveness and their jealous scenes, so she departs to New York to marry a conventional art dealer. The old friends and rivals Otto and Leo, united in their loss, decide two years later to pursue Gilda to America. When they turn up at her apartment, she is once again happy to share herself between her two lovers. Her infuriated husband stomps off, tripping over his...
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