The Rat Trap ***
By: Samuel L. Leiter November 21,2022: In 1918, when he was a mere stripling of 18, Noël Coward (1899-1973), budding British playwright/ performer/song writer, and so forth, wrote The Rat Trap,a four-act comedy-drama about marital dysfunction, with its accent on the drama. A reflection of Coward's extreme precocity, it had a Shavian-influenced theme about the overlooked intellectual and artistic powers of the …