First performance 24 August 1926 | Playwright Noël Coward | |
Adaptations Tonight Is Ours (1933), The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) Similar London Calling!, Sigh No More, Conversation Piece, Ace of Clubs, This Year of Grace | ||
The Queen Was in the Parlour: a romance in three acts is a play by the English writer Noël Coward. Belonging to the Ruritanian romance genre, its title is drawn from a line in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence". Although written in 1922, it was not produced until 24 August 1926, when it was premiered at the St Martin's Theatre.
Adaptations
It has been adapted for film three times - the first two times under its original title (in 1927 as a silent movie and in 1928 as a talking picture) and the third time as Tonight Is Ours in 1933.
References
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