text: In a play by this author, a woman has to act out the word "winsomely" during a game of adverbs and laterlaunches into a scene beginning, "Is this a game?
full_question: In a play by this author, a woman has to act out the word "winsomely" during a game of adverbs and laterlaunches into a scene beginning, "Is this a game?" from her play Love's Whirlwind. A character in a play by thisauthor insists that the song Always be played for a seven-year-old with a cold named Daphne. This authorwrote about the cocaine-addicted composer Nicky Lancaster in The Vortex. A play by this author features theBliss family, who each invite a different guest to spend the weekend in their country house. In one of his plays,Ruth is killed by a car booby-trapped by Elvira, whose ghost was summoned during a seance conducted byMadame Arcati for Charles Condomine. For 10 points, name this British playwright of Hay Fever and BlitheSpirit. 
first_sentence: In a play by this author, a woman has to act out the word "winsomely" during a game of adverbs and laterlaunches into a scene beginning, "Is this a game?
raw_answer: Noel Coward [or Noel Peirce Coward] 