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Bitter Sweet

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  12w, 2m

Noël Coward

Bitter Sweet (libretto)
by Noël Coward

Everything that wealthy London society had to offer a properly brought-up girl lay at the feet of little Sarah Millick in 1875; but she fell so desperately in love with her handsome young singing master that she threw it all away in order to be with him.

Bitter Sweet

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    12w, 2m
  • SubGenre
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  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)
Bitter Sweet

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Summary
Everything that wealthy London society had to offer a properly brought-up girl lay at the feet of little Sarah Millick in 1875; but she fell so desperately in love with her handsome young singing master that she threw it all away in order to be with him. In Vienna, five poverty-stricken years later, her adored Carl is killed in a duel. But his music lives on as the self-reliant Sarah earns fame throughout Europe with her singing. Finally returning to England, she marries the elderly Marquis of Shayne who has waited so patiently for her. Years later, at a madly bright party in the late 1920s, she tells her story, winning the grudging admiration of the smart young set. The Marchioness, they decide, must have been a gay old bird.
Cast Attributes

Singing Principals
Sarah Millick.
Victoria, Harriet, Gloria, Honor, Effie and Jane, her close friends.
Manon, a French cabaret entertainer in Vienna.
Gussi, Lotte, Freda and Hansi, Viennese ladies of the town C

  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Noël Coward

Noël Coward

Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924), which feature ...

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