 Star Chamber (play)

Star Chamber is a one-act play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "Tonight at 8.30", a cycle written to be performed in alternating groups of three plays, across three evenings.In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions."