Private Lives - Articles Page 167

Noel Coward’s gloriously entertaining PRIVATE LIVES will be the inaugural show for The Nigel Havers Theatre Company, starring Olivier Award-winning actress Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers. Coward’s dazzling comic masterpiece is both a scintillatingly witty and scathingly vitriolic study of the rich and reckless in love. Elyot and Amanda, who were once married, find themselves in adjoining rooms in the same hotel on the French Riviera, both on honeymoon with their new partners. Their initial horror quickly evaporates and soon they’re sharing cocktails and a romantic serenade. PRIVATE LIVES will be directed by Christopher Luscombe and produced by David Pugh and Theatre Royal Bath Productions.