Play review - "Sirocco" by Noel Coward (1928)

 I wanted to read this because of its notoriously bad premiere - Coward was actually booed. I quite enjoyed it. The basic dramatic situation is strong, it's about a woman neglected by her husband who has a fling with an Italian gigolo. She runs off with them, they have sex. Then she realises he's no good but doesn't go back to her husband. That's dramatically pwoerful. Maybe the treatment of the love scenes didn't work on stage - Ivor Novello as an Italian or something. It was long - there wasn't quite enough meat in it. Maybe it would've been more effective as a one act play (or two acts) - something for Songs at Twilight. But it's a solid minor play.