Suite in Three Keys

They are all set in the same suite in a luxury Swiss hotel and have a single character common to all three: the Italian waiter.

Suite in Three Keys was planned by Coward as his theatrical swan song: "I would like to act once more before I fold my bedraggled wings.

"[1] He wrote the three plays in the expectation that Margaret Leighton would be his co-star, but she vacillated for so long about accepting the roles that he cast Lilli Palmer instead.

[4] The other characters, nine in all, are English, American or German guests or visitors at the hotel, played by Coward, Palmer and Worth.

[5] The trilogy comprises: They originally ran in repertory for a limited season ending on 30 July 1966.