Play review - "Post Mortem" by Noel Coward (1931)

 Coward never went to uni but this is the sort of play you write at uni/drama school - full of passion, and prentention without knowledge of life but it has its own integrity. It's not like anything else I've read of his. It consists of eight scenes - the first is in the trenches, a guy dies, then comes back as a ghost in 1930 to visit his mum, dad, ex, mates, etc. there's a lot of solioquies and it's written with passion and sincerity. I preferred it to the smugness of his keep the classes down works but can see why it's not often performed.