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GYLES BRANDRETH (Chair) with guests including THEA SHARROCK, RICHARD BRIERS and PENELOPE KEITH will discuss the challenges and pleasures of playing and directing Coward's plays. Thea Sharrock directed Blithe Spirit (Savoy Theatre) and Private Lives (for The Peter Hall Company) Penelope Keith appeared in Blithe Spirit (2004/5) as Madame Arcati and as Lorraine Barry in Christopher Luscombe's production of Star Quality in 2002. Richard Briers was hailed by Noel Coward as 'one of our greatest farceurs' and is the author of Coward and Company.