Garry Essendine

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Garry Essendine is the vain, charismatic, and self-dramatizing middle-aged actor at the center of Noël Coward’s comedy "Present Laughter."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
stage character
age middle-aged
appearsIn Present Laughter NERFINISHED
characterTrait charismatic
self-dramatizing
vain
comicStyle witty repartee
createdBy Noël Coward NERFINISHED
dramaticArc confrontation with his own excesses
dramaticFunction comic protagonist
satire of theatrical vanity
firstAppearance Present Laughter NERFINISHED
gender male
genre comedy
hasAdmirer Daphne Stillington NERFINISHED
hasAgent Morris Dixon NERFINISHED
hasLover Joanna Lyppiatt NERFINISHED
hasProducer Henry Lyppiatt NERFINISHED
hasRelationshipWith Liz Essendine NERFINISHED
hasSecretary Monica Reed NERFINISHED
hasServant Fred NERFINISHED
hasStagePersona charming star
homeType London flat
innerConflict fear of aging and irrelevance
isFrequentlyOnTour true
isOftenPlayedBy Albert Finney NERFINISHED
Andrew Scott NERFINISHED
Ian McKellen NERFINISHED
Kevin Kline NERFINISHED
Noël Coward NERFINISHED
isProtagonistOf Present Laughter NERFINISHED
isSelfAwareOfAging true
isSemiAutobiographicalCounterpartOf Noël Coward NERFINISHED
isUsedForMetaTheatre true
language English
medium theatre
nationality British
notableScene monologue about turning forty
occupation actor
originalLanguageOfWork English
personalityArchetype egocentric matinee idol
relationshipTypeWithLizEssendine estranged husband GENERATED
setting London, England
surface form: London
timePeriodOfFictionalWorld late 1930s

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Present Laughter (stage) hasCharacter Garry Essendine
subject surface form: Present Laughter
Present Laughter (stage) mainCharacter Garry Essendine
subject surface form: Present Laughter
Present Laughter (stage) protagonist Garry Essendine
subject surface form: Present Laughter