Noël Coward’s scintillating comic masterpiece Private Lives starring Nigel Havers and Olivier Award-winner Patricia Hodge heads to the West End this autumn.
A dazzling comedy which is both a witty and scathing study of the rich and reckless in love, Private Lives is one of Noël Coward’s most beloved plays and is playing for a strictly limited 12-week run until 25 November 2023.
Ex-spouses Elyot and Amanda are honeymooning with their new partners in the South of France only to find themselves in adjacent hotel rooms. Their initial horror evaporates as, in no time at all, they’re rekindling their previous passion. But when they daringly elope to Amanda’s Parisian flat their lust thaws as quickly as it had reignited and they resume the slanging match which drove them apart in the first place…