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When Private Lives premiered in London in 1930, Noël Coward said that he wanted to stage a show replete with “cocktails, repartee, and irreverent allusions to copulation.” He started with a tantalizing premise: a comedy of manners that tells the story of Amanda (played by Freya Cunningham) and Eleanor (Jhanie Fender), divorced lovers who find […]
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Noël Coward’s Private Lives is part screwball comedy, part investigation of the nature of love and passion, which this version at St. Hilda’s aims to emphasise. The 1930s comedy of manners follows a divorced couple, Amanda and Victoria, who end up at the same hotel as each other, staying there with their new partners, Sybil […]
Continue ReadingAs someone great* once said: “One of the best things about literature is the way that it enables you to travel to foreign lands without ever needing to leave your seat.” Jonathan Kent’s revival of Private Lives, Noël Coward’s infamous comedy of manners, certainly delivers as promised on this front. The play transports the audience from […]
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