Private lives: the tricky ethics of confessional theatre
This year's Edinburgh fringe is full of personal stories and real-life drama, but not every production mines the lives of others with equal success"I'm just raw material," complains Alan Ben…
This year's Edinburgh fringe is full of personal stories and real-life drama, but not every production mines the lives of others with equal success"I'm just raw material," complains Alan Ben…
Finborough, LondonThe award-winning playwright uses YouTube as a medium to explore body anxiety and racial tension in this punchy two-handerBola Agbaje has written a number of very good play…
Highlighting the close connections between the photographer and subject, Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography delves beneath the surface of famili…
Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by No…
By Layla Haidrani However, while the pace of the comedy occasionally dips in the second half, this production of Coward's play is a gem, proving the enduring relevance of Private Lives and i…
Pleasing on the eye and ear, this 1930s Noël Coward script is brought to life for 2016 by director Tom Attenborough and a cast of five. Telling the story of two newly married divorcees wh…
Tom Chambers and Laura Rogers star as Noel Coward's quarrelling lovers
Albery Theatre, LondonRating: **** More reviewsIs it better to love temperately or wildly, wisely or too well? The question is posed in Howard Davies's very funny, very deep and subtle re…
The revival of the the Noel Coward classic is set to open in Woking later this month
RECOMMENDED Written almost ninety years ago, Nöel Coward's comedy "Private Lives" explores the undiscovered country of couplehood where the heat of love can sometimes burn with hate. The pl…
By Doug Mayo A major revival of Noel Coward's best loved and multi-award-winning quintessentially English comedy. This glittering production of one of the greatest plays of all time, include…
Tom Chambers and Laura Rogers are to star in a new production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives in 2016. They will be
A major revival of Noël Coward's hilarious masterpiece, Private Lives will embark on a prior to the West End UK tour starring stage and screen stars Tom Chambers (Top Hat, Strictly Come D…
And more from our Gossip Girl: there’s nothing this actress can’t do! "What happens if one of us dies? Does the one that's left, still laugh?" Amanda asks Elyot in the words of N…
It's not just the headline casting of Kim Cattrall as Amanda that overbalances this production.