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Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.
- Noël Coward
- 1930
Private Lives, comedy in three acts by Noël Coward, published and produced in 1930. This cynical comment on love and marriage is one of Coward’s most brilliantly realized plays and is characterized by his trademark witty dialogue.
- Noël Coward
- 1930
Dec 11, 2013 · Noel Coward's Private Lives: With Anthony Calf, Anna Chancellor, Sue Kelvin, Anna-Louise Plowman. Elyot Chase (Toby Stephens) and Amanda Prynne (Anna Chancellor) are glamorous, rich and reckless divorcees.
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In Private Lives, passion, laughter, romance, anger, and love set the stage for a battle of the sexes as divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unwittingly thrown together in Coward’s classic comedy of manners.
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy play written by Noel Coward. It covers a divorced couple, Elyot and Amanda, who inadvertently visit the same hotel in adjacent rooms for their respective honeymoons with new spouses.
Private Lives is considered a prime example of the sophisticated comedies of Noel Coward, one of the most-prominent dramatists of his era. An over-whelming critical and commercial success when it was first produced in 1930, Private Lives remains a standard of repertory and non-professional theatre companies everywhere and has entertained ...
Apr 19, 2023 · So it is with Amanda and Elyot, the famous divorcees at the heart of Coward’s Private Lives, who, through the magic of drama and the writer’s mischievous imagination, just happen to be ...
