Private Lives by Noel Coward

Private Lives by Noel Coward

Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge star in Noel Coward s classic comedy of errors.

Private Lives was written in 1930 and has been a mainstay of British theater ever since. This sharply funny play of reversals focuses on Elyot and Amanda, a passionate but feuding couple who divorced five years before. Now, on the first night of their honeymoons with their new partners, they find that they are all staying in the same hotel on the French Riviera. Fireworks are inevitable

The roles of the two ex-spouses are brilliantly recreated by Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge, while Coward s scintillating repartee epitomizes all the glamour and sophistication of life between the wars for society s spoiled darlings.

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Written by Noel Coward / First Broadcast: BC Radio 4: December 20, 1975 / Directed by Ian Cotterell / Adapted by Cynthia Pughe

Cast and Credits
Elyot Chase: Paul Scofield / Amanda Prynne: Patricial Routledge / Sibyl Chase: Miriam Margoyles / Victor Prynne: John Rye / Louise: Carole Boyd