Point Valaine
By: Noël Coward
Contributors: Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 'Point Valaine' is a three act melodrama, written in 1934, set in the Caribbean. It is the story of what happens in a tropical hotel when love runs amuck. Stefan, an amorous, brutal waiter, is very much taken with the 40-year-old hotelier, Linda, who seems to object only slightly to his attentions. But one day she decides that a change of lovers will do her no harm and feels that she needs more than Stefan's brutal lust. Her affair with the young man has terrifying repercussions. Stefan becomes violent and alternately chokes and caresses Linda. Finally he cuts his own wrists and throws himself into the sea.
Notes: Previously published in print: in Plays six. London, Methuen Drama, 1999.