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Design for Living

Noel Coward's audacious comedy from 1933, written for himself and the Lunts, centers on a sexual threeway between Leo & Gilda & Otto, three bohems who are in love with each other. Romantic, heartless, daring — in sum, about as modern as you can get.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatresexuality
Setting
1930s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 128 pages
Form
plays

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