A MAJOR revival of Noël Coward’s comedy masterpiece Private Lives is coming to Glasgow in the New Year.
Private Lives will star Strictly Come Dancing favourite Tom Chambers
as the loveable and charming Elyot and Tipping The Velvet star Laura Rogers as the unconventional and vivacious Amanda.
The show also features Charlotte Ritchie, who appeared as the pretentious Oregon in the Channel 4 comedy drama, Fresh Meat as Sybil and Richard Teverson of Downton fame as Victor.
Private Lives, written in just three days, remains Coward’s greatest success and the play that marked the peak of his career.
It tells of Elyot (a role originated by Coward himself) and Amanda, a gloriously selfish divorced couple who, by a quirk of fate, meet again on their honeymoons with their new spouses and reignite their old spark.
The revival of their fiery romance, alternating between heated rows and passionate reconciliations, reminds them that although they cannot live with each other, nor can they live without.
A spokesman for the Theatre Royal said; “A masterpiece of thirties high comedy full of razor sharp wit and sparkling dialogue, Private Lives remains one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written, offering an evening of acutely sharp, divinely decadent, and unashamed humour.”
• Private Lives, February 22-27.
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