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Private Lives

  • Noël Coward
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1930s
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573013577

"Gorgeous, dazzling, fantastically funny."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. 

Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. 

A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs boasting such as stars Coward himself, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. 
REVIEWS:

"Gorgeous, dazzling, fantastically funny."

 The New York Times

"A gleaming and gleeful comedy."

 The New York Post

"A brilliant comedy. A very funny play."

 Newsweek

Premiere Production: Private Lives premiered at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh on 18 August, 1930.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F

SIBYL CHASE
ELYOT CHASE
VICTOR PRYNNE
AMANDA PRYNNE
LOUISE

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Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs boasting such as stars Coward himself, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

$24.95

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