Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story | British & Irish Mini-Fest
Wed, 22 Nov
|Dome Cinema and Bar
This documentary is part of a selection of films from the 2023 British and Irish Film Festival screening at the Dome.


Time & Location
22 Nov 2023, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Dome Cinema and Bar, 38 Childers Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
The folks at the Dome Cinema are bringing us a selection of films from the 2023 British and Irish Film Festival! Each film screens only once, so make sure you don't miss out.
Sir Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world.
And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage. He wrote, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time, including Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve. He also became a world renowned songwriter and performer of whom Frank Sinatra said, ‘If you want to hear how a song should be sung, go see Mr Noël Coward’.
And if that wasn’t enough, he was also a spy during the…