TY - BOOK ID - 78143273 TI - Present indicative PY - 2012 SN - 1283853639 140819077X 9781408190777 9781283853637 0413774139 PB - London Methuen Drama DB - UniCat KW - Dramatists, English KW - Actors KW - Coward, Noel, KW - Coward, Noël, KW - Coward, Noël KW - Coward, Noël Peirce KW - The master UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143273 AB - ""I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and laughing hysterically. If these photographs can be found they will adorn this book."" Thus begins the life story of one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history, in the first of Coward''s autobiographies, first published in 1937. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, Present Indicative ER -