Relative Values: Noel Coward’s Uneasy Celebration of Hierarchy — londonist.com

Relative Values, first performed and set in 1951, marked Noël Coward’s return to comic playwriting after World War II. The times are changing; social hierarchies aren’t what they used to be. But the play reveals a slightly bitter side to Coward and seems to adamantly refuse this; 1951 marks a moment shortly before the Conservatives came back to power, and the play is a celebration of Britain’s ‘natural’ hierarchy.

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