Sunday, March 12, 2023

Play review - "Private Lives" by Noel Coward (1930)

 Fun high concept comedy of remarriage about a divorced couple who run into each other on their new honeymoons - famous written in four days. A couple of gags maybe wouldn't fly (eg about a stillborn child, hitting people) but it is witty, and if it's about a couple in a self destructive relationship, that gives it subtext but also everyone is rich and upper class so it doesn't matter.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you mean "Private Lives." Though I wouldn't mind seeing Coward do a hardboiled play about detectives.

Bob Aldrich said...

You're totally right on both counts! Thank you :)