PRIVATE LIVES

By Noel Coward

An Everyman Palace Production in association with Proscenium

Directed by Mary Curtin
Designed by Jim Queally.

Cast: Joy Buckle, Ann Dorgan, Ian McGuirk, Michael Murphy and Rachel O’Connell.

A divorced couple are accidentally re-united when they book adjoining rooms in a hotel, while on honeymoon with their new spouses in France. Amanda and Elyot immediately realise that they still love each other and elope to Paris, where their renewed passion for one another is rapidly offset by a slew of violent and aggressive arguments.

An astounding polymath, Noel Coward was a much imitated actor, writer, composer, lyricist and painter. Like Woody Allen and Oscar Wilde, Coward is recognised as a master of droll, dialogue-led humour. His celebrity and success reached its peak with Private Lives, by which time he had become the highest earning author in the western world.