Present Laughter is one of Noel Coward’s four great comedies of manners, along with Hay Fever, Private Lives and Blithe Spirit. An overwhelming critical and commercial success when it was first produced in London’s West End in 1942, the play presents a masterly, exaggerated, picture not only of the playwright himself, but of his whole household, his court, his admirers, his lifestyle, and his era. This production comes to The Everyman after a sell-out run at Cork Arts Theatre and features an all-Cork cast with direction by Mary Curtin.