Imperial facade

Description

Imperial Facade concerns the adventures of Noel Coward as a young man whilst he was 'in residence' at Raffles Hotel, Singapore in 1929. During the play he begins to discover spicy secrets concealed behind the grand colonial façade of the hotel. Noel, a very gay young man, pretends to be a voracious lady-killer. Simon Makepeace the matinee idol of a down-at-heel theatrical company disguises the fact that he works as a rent boy on the side. And what dark secret is Wing Lee, an Imperial Princess from Peking, hiding? And just what is the famous actor John Mills doing in the middle of all this?