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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Private_Lives_Theatre_De_Lys.jpg/220px-Private_Lives_Theatre_De_Lys.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Private_Lives_Theatre_De_Lys.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="396" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Poster from the 1968 <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Lortel_Theatre" title="Lucille Lortel Theatre">Theatre De Lys</a> production featuring a sketch of Coward</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data description"><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Date premiered</th><td class="infobox-data">18 August 1930<span class="noprint">; 94 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">18 August 1930</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Place premiered</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Theatre,_Edinburgh" title="King's Theatre, Edinburgh">King's Theatre</a>, Edinburgh</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data">A divorced couple unexpectedly honeymoon at the same place with their new spouses</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Romantic_comedy" title="Romantic comedy">Romantic comedy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Setting</th><td class="infobox-data">A hotel in <a href="/wiki/Deauville" title="Deauville">Deauville</a>, France, and a flat in Paris in the 1930s</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Private Lives</b></i> is a 1930 <a href="/wiki/Comedy_of_manners" title="Comedy of manners">comedy of manners</a> in three acts by <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>. It concerns a divorced couple who, while <a href="/wiki/Honeymoon" title="Honeymoon">honeymooning</a> with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second-act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risqué. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, ‘<a href="/wiki/Someday_I%27ll_Find_You" title="Someday I'll Find You">Someday I'll Find You</a>’, for the play. </p><p>After touring the British provinces, the play opened the new <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Theatre_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoenix Theatre (London)">Phoenix Theatre</a> in London in 1930, starring Coward, <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence" title="Gertrude Lawrence">Gertrude Lawrence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adrianne_Allen" title="Adrianne Allen">Adrianne Allen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> production followed in 1931, and the play has been revived at least a half-dozen times each in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> and on Broadway. The leading roles have attracted a wide range of actors: among those who have succeeded Coward as Elyot are <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Rickman" title="Alan Rickman">Alan Rickman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Macfadyen" title="Matthew Macfadyen">Matthew Macfadyen</a>, and successors to Lawrence as Amanda have included <a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Stritch" title="Elaine Stritch">Elaine Stritch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Keith" title="Penelope Keith">Penelope Keith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Duncan" title="Lindsay Duncan">Lindsay Duncan</a>. Directors of new productions have included <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howard_Davies_(director)" title="Howard Davies (director)">Howard Davies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a>. The play was made into a <a href="/wiki/Private_Lives_(1931_film)" title="Private Lives (1931 film)">1931 film</a> and has been adapted several times for television and radio. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coward was in the middle of an extensive Asian tour when he contracted <a href="/wiki/Influenza" title="Influenza">influenza</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lahr59_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lahr59-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spent the better part of his two-week convalescence sketching out the play and then completed the actual writing of the piece in only four days.<sup id="cite_ref-lahr59_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lahr59-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He immediately cabled <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence" title="Gertrude Lawrence">Gertrude Lawrence</a> in New York to ask her to keep autumn 1930 free to appear in the play. After spending a few more weeks revising it, he typed the final draft in <a href="/wiki/Peace_Hotel" title="Peace Hotel">The Cathay Hotel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a> and sent copies to Lawrence and his <a href="/wiki/Theatre_producer" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre producer">producer</a> and manager, <a href="/wiki/John_C._Wilson" title="John C. Wilson">John C. Wilson</a>, with instructions to cable him with their reactions.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coward received no fewer than 30 telegrams from Lawrence about the play. She first said that she had read the play and there was "nothing wrong with it that can't be fixed." Coward "wired back curtly that the only thing that was going to be fixed was her performance."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lawrence was indecisive about what to do about her previous commitment to <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Charlot" title="André Charlot">André Charlot</a>. Coward finally responded that he planned to cast the play with another actress.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time he returned to London, he found Lawrence not only had cleared her schedule but was staying at <a href="/wiki/Edward_Molyneux" title="Edward Molyneux">Edward Molyneux</a>'s villa in <a href="/wiki/Cap-d%27Ail" title="Cap-d'Ail">Cap-d'Ail</a> in southeastern France learning her lines.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward joined her, and the two began rehearsing the scenes they shared. </p><p>At the end of July they returned to London where Coward began to direct the production. Coward played the part of Elyot Chase himself, <a href="/wiki/Adrianne_Allen" title="Adrianne Allen">Adrianne Allen</a> was his bride Sibyl, Lawrence played Amanda Prynne, and <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> was her new husband Victor. Coward wrote Sibyl and Victor as minor characters, "extra puppets, lightly wooden ninepins, only to be repeatedly knocked down and stood up again."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later insisted, however, that they must be credible new spouses for the lead characters: "We've got to have two people as attractive as Larry and Adrianne were in the first place, <i>if</i> we can find them."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rehearsals were still underway when the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain" title="Lord Chamberlain">Lord Chamberlain</a> took exception to the second act's love scene, labelling it too risqué in light of the fact the characters were divorced and married to others. Coward went to <a href="/wiki/St._James%27s_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James's Palace">St. James's Palace</a> to plead his case by acting out the play himself and assuring the censor that with artful direction the scene would be presented in a dignified and unobjectionable manner.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward repeats one of his signature theatrical devices at the end of the play, where the main characters tiptoe out as the curtain falls – a device that he also used in <i><a href="/wiki/Present_Laughter" title="Present Laughter">Present Laughter</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hay_Fever_(play)" title="Hay Fever (play)">Hay Fever</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Blithe_Spirit_(play)" title="Blithe Spirit (play)">Blithe Spirit</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play contains one of Coward's most popular songs, "Some Day I'll Find You". The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the <a href="/wiki/Performing_Rights_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Performing Rights Society">Performing Rights Society</a>, ranks it among Coward's ten most performed songs.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Act 1</dt></dl> <p>Following a brief courtship, Elyot and Sibyl are honeymooning at a hotel in <a href="/wiki/Deauville" title="Deauville">Deauville</a>, France,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although her curiosity about his first marriage is not helping his romantic mood. In the adjoining suite Amanda and Victor are starting their new life together, although he cannot stop thinking of the cruelty Amanda's ex-husband displayed towards her. Elyot and Amanda, following a volatile three-year-long marriage, have been divorced for five years, but they now discover that they are sharing a terrace while on their honeymoons with their new and younger spouses. Elyot and Amanda separately beg their new spouses to leave the hotel with them immediately, but both new spouses refuse to cooperate and each storms off to dine alone. Realising they still love each other and regretting having divorced, Elyot and Amanda abandon their spouses and run off to Amanda's flat in Paris. </p> <dl><dt>Act 2</dt></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="young white man, clean shaven, facing a young white woman with bob cut hair across a small round table set with wine glasses and demitasse cups; both are smoking using cigarette holder" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg/330px-Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg/495px-Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg/660px-Private-Lives-1931-1b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in the Broadway production of <i>Private Lives</i> (1931)</figcaption></figure> <p>After dinner at the Paris flat several days later, Elyot and Amanda use their code word "Solomon Isaacs", soon abbreviated to "Sollocks", to stop their arguments from getting out of hand. They kiss passionately, but the harmony cannot last: whilst Elyot and Amanda cannot live without each other, neither can they live with each other. They argue violently and try to outwit each other, just as they had done during their stormy marriage. Their ongoing argument escalates to a point of fury, as Amanda breaks a record over Elyot's head and he retaliates by slapping her face. They seem to be trapped in a repeating cycle of love and hate as their private passions and jealousies consume them. At the height of their biggest fight, Sibyl and Victor walk in. </p> <dl><dt>Act 3</dt></dl> <p>The next morning Amanda tries to sneak away early but is surprised to find Sibyl and Victor there. As they talk, Elyot comes in, and he and Amanda start bickering again. It has been decided that neither of the new spouses will grant a divorce for a year, to give Amanda and Elyot time to confirm if this is really what they want. As tempers rise, Sibyl and Victor begin to bicker with each other, defending their respective spouses. Amanda and Elyot realise that Sibyl and Victor are as suited to each other as they are, forgive each another and sneak out, leaving the younger two together. As Elyot and Amanda tiptoe out, Victor and Sibyl have reached the point of mutual violence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Productions">Productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_productions">Original productions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Original productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:224px;max-width:224px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg/220px-Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg/330px-Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg/440px-Private-Lives-1931-3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="850" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg/220px-Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg/330px-Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg/440px-Private-Lives-1931-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="890" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward in the Broadway production of <i>Private Lives</i> (1931)</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Produced by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Blake_Cochran" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Blake Cochran">C. B. Cochran</a>, the play premiered on 18 August 1930, at the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Theatre,_Edinburgh" title="King's Theatre, Edinburgh">King's Theatre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, directed by Coward and starring Coward as Elyot, <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence" title="Gertrude Lawrence">Gertrude Lawrence</a> as Amanda, <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> as Victor and <a href="/wiki/Adrianne_Allen" title="Adrianne Allen">Adrianne Allen</a> as Sibyl. Sets and costumes were designed by <a href="/wiki/Gladys_Calthrop" title="Gladys Calthrop">Gladys Calthrop</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After successfully touring <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southsea" title="Southsea">Southsea</a> for five weeks, the production opened the new <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Theatre_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoenix Theatre (London)">Phoenix Theatre</a> in London on 24 September 1930. A week after the play opened, <a href="/wiki/Heinemann_(book_publisher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinemann (book publisher)">Heinemann</a> published the text; a week later, <a href="/wiki/HMV" title="HMV">HMV</a> issued recordings of scenes from the play performed by Coward and Lawrence.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward disliked appearing in long runs, and the London run was therefore a limited three-month season. It sold out within a week and was still playing to packed houses when, despite "the gratifying knowledge that we could have run on for another six [months]," it ended on 20 December 1930.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> production opened at the <a href="/wiki/Times_Square_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Times Square Theatre">Times Square Theatre</a> on 27 January 1931 with Coward, Lawrence and Olivier reprising their roles and <a href="/wiki/Jill_Esmond" title="Jill Esmond">Jill Esmond</a>, who had married Olivier a few months earlier, as Sibyl.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Walter_Winchell" title="Walter Winchell">Walter Winchell</a> described the production as "something to go quite silly over."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The New York critics were enthusiastic about the play and Coward's performance.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few weeks before Coward and Lawrence were scheduled to be replaced by <a href="/wiki/Otto_Kruger" title="Otto Kruger">Otto Kruger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Madge_Kennedy" title="Madge Kennedy">Madge Kennedy</a>, Lawrence collapsed with a combined attack of <a href="/wiki/Laryngitis" title="Laryngitis">laryngitis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neurasthenia" title="Neurasthenia">nervous exhaustion</a>. Coward appeared at five performances with her understudy, and then closed the production for two weeks to allow Lawrence to recuperate. She returned, and the two continued in their roles until 9 May 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production ran a total of 256 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_revivals_(1940s_to_1970s)"><span id="Major_revivals_.281940s_to_1970s.29"></span>Major revivals (1940s to 1970s)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Major revivals (1940s to 1970s)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Noel_Coward_(1963)_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg/170px-Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg/255px-Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg/340px-Noel_Coward_%281963%29_by_Erling_Mandelmann_-_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="573" data-file-height="575" /></a><figcaption>Coward in 1963</figcaption></figure> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> revival was at the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Theatre" title="Apollo Theatre">Apollo Theatre</a> in 1944 starring <a href="/wiki/John_Clements_(actor)" title="John Clements (actor)">John Clements</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kay_Hammond" title="Kay Hammond">Kay Hammond</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Googie_Withers" title="Googie Withers">Googie Withers</a> took over as Amanda during the run.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the years, the play has been revived on Broadway six times. The first of these, in 1948, starred <a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a> as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Cook_(actor)" title="Donald Cook (actor)">Donald Cook</a> as Elyot, with <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Baxley" title="Barbara Baxley">Barbara Baxley</a> as Sibyl and William Langford as Victor, in a production directed by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Manulis" title="Martin Manulis">Martin Manulis</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Schoenfeld_Theatre" title="Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre">Plymouth Theatre</a>, where it ran for 248 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production toured all but three states of the U.S., and grossed more than $1.5 million.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward went to see the production "with my heart in my boots and was very pleasantly surprised ... her (Bankhead's) vitality was amazing, and, strange to say, she played the love scene quite beautifully."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1963, at the start of what Coward called "Dad's Renaissance", a London revival directed by <a href="/wiki/James_Roose-Evans" title="James Roose-Evans">James Roose-Evans</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_Theatre" title="Hampstead Theatre">Hampstead Theatre Club</a> heralded Coward's return to critical favour.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The success of the production, with <a href="/wiki/Edward_de_Souza" title="Edward de Souza">Edward de Souza</a> as Elyot and <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Martin" title="Rosemary Martin">Rosemary Martin</a> as Amanda, led to its transfer to the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Theatre" title="Duke of York's Theatre">Duke of York's Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The West End producer wanted to cast established stars in the transfer, but Coward insisted that the young Hampstead cast should be retained.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It ran in the West End for 212 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A May 1968 <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> production directed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Nelson_Reilly" title="Charles Nelson Reilly">Charles Nelson Reilly</a> starred <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Stritch" title="Elaine Stritch">Elaine Stritch</a> as Amanda, and ran for nine performances at the <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Lortel_Theatre" title="Lucille Lortel Theatre">Theatre de Lys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1969 production, directed by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Porter_(director)" title="Stephen Porter (director)">Stephen Porter</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bedford" title="Brian Bedford">Brian Bedford</a> as Elyot and <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Grimes" title="Tammy Grimes">Tammy Grimes</a> as Amanda (winning a <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Award</a> for her performance), with David Glover as Victor and Suzanne Grossman as Sibyl, opened at Broadway's <a href="/wiki/Nederlander_Theatre" title="Nederlander Theatre">Billy Rose Theatre</a> and then moved to the <a href="/wiki/Broadhurst_Theatre" title="Broadhurst Theatre">Broadhurst Theatre</a> to complete its run of 198 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last major revival during Coward's lifetime was at London's <a href="/wiki/Sondheim_Theatre" title="Sondheim Theatre">Queen's Theatre</a> in 1972. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> and starred <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the run of the production, <a href="/wiki/John_Standing" title="John Standing">John Standing</a> took over as Elyot,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)" title="Jill Bennett (British actress)">Jill Bennett</a> was a replacement as Amanda.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gielgud directed a 1975 Broadway transfer of his production, starring Maggie Smith and John Standing at the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers_Theatre" title="Richard Rodgers Theatre">46th Street Theatre</a>, where it ran for 92 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1978, Smith reprised her role (alongside <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bedford" title="Brian Bedford">Brian Bedford</a>) in a <a href="/wiki/Stratford_Festival" title="Stratford Festival">Stratford Festival</a> production of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_revivals_(1980s_to_present)"><span id="Major_revivals_.281980s_to_present.29"></span>Major revivals (1980s to present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Major revivals (1980s to present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg/220px-Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg/330px-Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg/440px-Liz_Taylor_and_Richard_Burton_1971.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3316" data-file-height="2273" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a> were the headline stars in a 1983 Broadway production</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1980, a production from the <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Theatre" title="Greenwich Theatre">Greenwich Theatre</a> transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Duchess_Theatre" title="Duchess Theatre">Duchess Theatre</a> in the West End. It starred <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jayston" title="Michael Jayston">Michael Jayston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maria_Aitken" title="Maria Aitken">Maria Aitken</a>, and it was directed by Alan Strachan.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a> as Elyot were the headliners in a highly anticipated 1983 Broadway production directed by <a href="/wiki/Milton_Katselas" title="Milton Katselas">Milton Katselas</a>, which opened at the <a href="/wiki/Lunt-Fontanne_Theatre" title="Lunt-Fontanne Theatre">Lunt-Fontanne Theatre</a> in May 1983 following a pre-Broadway run at the Shubert Theatre in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> in April 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It co-starred <a href="/wiki/John_Cullum" title="John Cullum">John Cullum</a> as Victor and <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Walker" title="Kathryn Walker">Kathryn Walker</a> as Sibyl<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and ran for 63 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After closing on Broadway, this production toured to the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts">John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts</a> in August and September 1983,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of America Theatre">Shubert Theatre</a>, Chicago in September,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Saban_Theatre" title="Saban Theatre">Wilshire Theatre</a>, Los Angeles in October 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1990, a revival at London's <a href="/wiki/Aldwych_Theatre" title="Aldwych Theatre">Aldwych Theatre</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Keith_Baxter_(actor)" title="Keith Baxter (actor)">Keith Baxter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a>, directed by Tim Luscombe, was not well received,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although <a href="/wiki/Sara_Crowe" title="Sara Crowe">Sara Crowe</a> won an <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Award">Olivier Award</a>, Actress in a Supporting Role, as Sibyl.<sup id="cite_ref-Crowe_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crowe-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Arvin_Brown" title="Arvin Brown">Arvin Brown</a> directed Collins as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Jones_(actor)" title="Simon Jones (actor)">Simon Jones</a> as Elyot in a 1992 Broadway production<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that closed after only 11 previews and 37 performances at the <a href="/wiki/Broadhurst_Theatre" title="Broadhurst Theatre">Broadhurst Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last West End production of the 20th century was at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre</a>, running from May to September 1999, with <a href="/wiki/Anton_Lesser" title="Anton Lesser">Anton Lesser</a> as Elyot and <a href="/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson" title="Juliet Stevenson">Juliet Stevenson</a> as Amanda, directed by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Franks" title="Philip Franks">Philip Franks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-billington_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-billington-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2001 London revival emphasised the harshness and darker side of the play; it starred <a href="/wiki/Alan_Rickman" title="Alan Rickman">Alan Rickman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Duncan" title="Lindsay Duncan">Lindsay Duncan</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Davies_(director)" title="Howard Davies (director)">Howard Davies</a> at the Albery Theatre (subsequently renamed the <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward_Theatre" title="Noël Coward Theatre">Noël Coward Theatre</a>). Duncan won the Olivier Award for her performance, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Hatley" title="Tim Hatley">Tim Hatley</a> won for his set designs, and <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Beavan" title="Jenny Beavan">Jenny Beavan</a> won for costumes.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Olivier2002_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Olivier2002-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Broadway transfer of Davies's West End production, starring Rickman and Duncan, ran for 127 performances at the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers_Theatre" title="Richard Rodgers Theatre">Richard Rodgers Theatre</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It won the Tony Award for Best Revival, while Duncan won for Leading Actress and Hatley won for sets.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009 at its new home, the Hampstead Theatre presented a revival directed by Lucy Bailey, with <a href="/wiki/Jasper_Britton" title="Jasper Britton">Jasper Britton</a> as Elyot and <a href="/wiki/Claire_Price" title="Claire Price">Claire Price</a> as Amanda.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2010 revival at the <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville_Theatre" title="Vaudeville Theatre">Vaudeville Theatre</a> in London was directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a> and starred <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Macfadyen" title="Matthew Macfadyen">Matthew Macfadyen</a> as Elyot and <a href="/wiki/Kim_Cattrall" title="Kim Cattrall">Kim Cattrall</a> as Amanda.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ten-week limited season ran from February to May 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This production then moved to North America, starring Cattrall and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gross" title="Paul Gross">Paul Gross</a>. It had tryouts in Toronto from 16 September to 30 October 2011 and played on Broadway at the <a href="/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre" title="Music Box Theatre">Music Box Theatre</a> from 6 November, with an official opening on 17 November. <a href="/wiki/Simon_Paisley_Day" title="Simon Paisley Day">Simon Paisley Day</a> played Victor, and <a href="/wiki/Anna_Madeley" title="Anna Madeley">Anna Madeley</a> played Sibyl.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production closed early, on 31 December 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A production ran at the <a href="/wiki/Chichester_Festival_Theatre" title="Chichester Festival Theatre">Chichester Festival Theatre</a> from 28 September (previews from 21 September) to 27 October 2012, starring <a href="/wiki/Anna_Chancellor" title="Anna Chancellor">Anna Chancellor</a> as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Toby_Stephens" title="Toby Stephens">Toby Stephens</a> as Elyot, with <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Calf" title="Anthony Calf">Anthony Calf</a> as Victor and <a href="/wiki/Anna-Louise_Plowman" title="Anna-Louise Plowman">Anna-Louise Plowman</a> as Sibyl. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kent_(director)" title="Jonathan Kent (director)">Jonathan Kent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This production was reprised with the same cast at the <a href="/wiki/Gielgud_Theatre" title="Gielgud Theatre">Gielgud Theatre</a>, in London, from 3 July (previews from 22 June) to 21 September 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This performance was broadcast to participating cinemas in the UK from 6 February 2014, and in the US on 11 December 2013, by CinemaLive and <a href="/wiki/Digital_Theatre_(website)" title="Digital Theatre (website)">Digital Theatre</a> in their West End Theatre Series.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A UK tour of <i>Private Lives</i> starring <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Hodge" title="Patricia Hodge">Patricia Hodge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Havers" title="Nigel Havers">Nigel Havers</a> opened in October 2021 in <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a>. This production cast all the lead roles as much older than in previous productions, which was initially met with scepticism.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the change was received well by audiences and the tour broke several box-office records before ending in <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> in April 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This production transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)" title="Ambassadors Theatre (London)">Ambassadors Theatre</a> in the West End from 31 August to 25 November 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another revival ran at the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a> in London from 7 April to 27 May 2023. The production starred <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Mangan" title="Stephen Mangan">Stephen Mangan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rachael_Stirling" title="Rachael Stirling">Rachael Stirling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laura_Carmichael" title="Laura Carmichael">Laura Carmichael</a> and Sargon Yelda.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original production received mixed reviews. Coward later wrote, "The critics described <i>Private Lives</i> variously as 'tenuous, thin, brittle, gossamer, iridescent, and delightfully daring'. All of which connoted in the public mind cocktails, repartee and irreverent allusions to copulation, thereby causing a gratifying number of respectable people to queue up at the box office."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Times</i> wrote, "What an entertaining play it is!", but wondered if any other performers could bring it off.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Allardyce_Nicoll" title="Allardyce Nicoll">Allardyce Nicoll</a> called it "amusing, no doubt, yet hardly moving farther below the surface than a paper boat in a bathtub and, like the paper boat, ever in imminent danger of becoming a shapeless, sodden mass."<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Guardian" class="mw-redirect" title="The Manchester Guardian">The Manchester Guardian</a></i> commented, "The audience evidently found it a good entertainment, but Mr. Coward certainly had not flattered our intelligence. The play appears to be based on the theory that anything will do provided it be neatly done."<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> also thought that the play depended on brilliant acting and thought the characters unrealistic, though "None the less, for a couple of hours they are delicious company when Mr. Coward is master of unceremonious ceremonies."<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a></i> discerned a sad side to the play in its story of a couple who can live neither with nor without each other: "It is not the least of Mr. Coward's achievements that he has ... disguised the grimness of his play and that his conception of love is really desolating."<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the text was published, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> called it "unreadable",<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a></i> found it "inexpressibly tedious" in print but acknowledged that its effectiveness on stage was "proved by the delight of a theatrical audience."<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/T._E._Lawrence" title="T. E. Lawrence">T. E. Lawrence</a>, however, wrote, "The play reads astonishingly well ... superb prose."<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The editor of <i><a href="/wiki/Gramophone_(magazine)" title="Gramophone (magazine)">The Gramophone</a></i> greeted Coward and Lawrence's 1930 recording of scenes from the play as a success and added, "I wish that Noel Coward would find time to write a short play for the gramophone, for neither of these extracts has enough completeness to bear indefinite repetition."<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A famous scene has Amanda and Elyot discuss Elyot's voyage to Asia, with questions on <i>how China was</i> (<i>"Very big"</i>) and <i>"how was the <a href="/wiki/Taj_Mahal" title="Taj Mahal">Taj Mahal</a>?"</i> (<i>"Unbelievable, a sort of dream"</i>). <sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_analysis">Literary analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Literary analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Private Lives</i> has been the subject of literary analysis under a range of literary theories. Coward expressed a dim view of such analyses: "Many years ago an earnest young man wrote a book about my plays. It was very intelligent and absolute rubbish."<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2005 article, Penny Farfan analyses the play from the point of view of <a href="/wiki/Queer_theory" title="Queer theory">queer theory</a>, arguing that "the subversiveness of [Coward's] sexual identity is reflected in his work," and that <i>Private Lives</i> questions "the conventional gender norms on which compulsory heterosexuality depends."<sup id="cite_ref-farfan_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-farfan-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Positing that the leading characters' portrayal as equals is evidence in support of this theory, Farfan instances the famous image (shown above) of Coward and Lawrence as Elyot and Amanda smoking and "posing as mirror opposites".<sup id="cite_ref-farfan_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-farfan-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward himself pronounced the play "psychologically unstable",<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/John_Lahr" title="John Lahr">John Lahr</a> in a 1982 study of Coward's plays writes, "Elyot and Amanda's outrageousness is used to propound the aesthetics of <a href="/wiki/Camp_(style)" title="Camp (style)">high camp</a> – an essentially homosexual view of the world that justifies detachment.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in a 1992 article on "Coward and the Politics of Homosexual Representation", <a href="/wiki/Alan_Sinfield" title="Alan Sinfield">Alan Sinfield</a>, examining gay aspects of Coward's major plays, mentions <i>Private Lives</i> only in passing.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The critic <a href="/wiki/Michael_Billington_(critic)" title="Michael Billington (critic)">Michael Billington</a> writes of the piece, "It is not a closet gay play but a classic about the mysterious charm of androgeny [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>]."<sup id="cite_ref-billington_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-billington-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play has also been analysed as part of the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_the_absurd" title="Theatre of the absurd">theatre of the absurd</a>. In a 1984 article, Archie J. Loss argues that nothing can ever happen in the relationship of Elyot and Amanda, because it is based on conflicting emotions: "they are bound to repeat themselves, playing out their scene again and again with different words and different props but always with the same result."<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2000 study of Coward, Jean Chothia instances surreal exchanges in the play, such as: "Have you ever crossed the Sahara on a camel?" "Frequently. When I was a boy we used to do it all the time. My Grandmother had a wonderful seat on a camel."<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_and_broadcast_versions">Film and broadcast versions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Film and broadcast versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Private_Lives_poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Private_Lives_poster.jpg/220px-Private_Lives_poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Private_Lives_poster.jpg/330px-Private_Lives_poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Private_Lives_poster.jpg/440px-Private_Lives_poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="978" /></a><figcaption>Poster for the 1931 film, starring <a href="/wiki/Norma_Shearer" title="Norma Shearer">Norma Shearer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Montgomery_(actor)" title="Robert Montgomery (actor)">Robert Montgomery</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Hanns_Kr%C3%A4ly" title="Hanns Kräly">Hanns Kräly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Schayer" title="Richard Schayer">Richard Schayer</a> wrote the screenplay for a <a href="/wiki/Private_Lives_(1931_film)" title="Private Lives (1931 film)">1931 film adaptation</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Franklin_(director)" title="Sidney Franklin (director)">Sidney Franklin</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/Norma_Shearer" title="Norma Shearer">Norma Shearer</a> as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Montgomery_(actor)" title="Robert Montgomery (actor)">Robert Montgomery</a> as Elyot. <a href="/wiki/Una_Merkel" title="Una Merkel">Una Merkel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reginald_Denny_(actor)" title="Reginald Denny (actor)">Reginald Denny</a> played Sibyl and Victor. The film received mixed reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coward thought it "passable."<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 21 April 1939, <a href="/wiki/CBS_Radio" title="CBS Radio">CBS Radio</a> aired an hour-long adaptation of the play by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Campbell_Playhouse_(radio_series)" title="The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)">The Campbell Playhouse</a></i>. Guest star Gertrude Lawrence reprised her stage role as Amanda, and Welles played Elyot. Naomi Campbell and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Speaight" title="Robert Speaight">Robert Speaight</a> played Sibyl and Victor.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On British television, Peter Gray and <a href="/wiki/Maxine_Audley" title="Maxine Audley">Maxine Audley</a> starred in a 1959 presentation, and <a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Keith" title="Penelope Keith">Penelope Keith</a> took the leads in a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> production in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> broadcast a radio adaptation starring <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Routledge" title="Patricia Routledge">Patricia Routledge</a> on 20 December 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich" title="Peter Bogdanovich">Peter Bogdanovich</a> was asked to do a film adaptation of Coward's <i>Private Lives</i> with <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a>, which was set to be shot in the Rivera until they decided just to film it on stage.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to this, around 1974, there had been talk of Bogdanovich staging it as a revival on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>, with the participation of <a href="/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later on, in 1990, Bogdanovich wrote a second draft adaptation of the play, which he had hoped to make with Hepburn starring.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Bogdanovich credits the film's demise to <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a>, who didn't like him: "The executives asked [Wilder] what he thought of the idea. He said, 'Bad idea.' That was the end of that."<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast another adaptation of the play directed by Sally Avens, starring <a href="/wiki/Helena_Bonham_Carter" title="Helena Bonham Carter">Helena Bonham Carter</a> as Amanda and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Nighy" title="Bill Nighy">Bill Nighy</a> as Elyot.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <i>Private Lives</i> premiered, the various awards now given for achievement in musical theatre, such as the <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Awards">Olivier Awards</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Awards" title="Tony Awards">Tony Awards</a>, had not yet been created, and therefore the original productions of the play received no such awards. The first Broadway production of <i>Private Lives</i> to receive major theatre awards was the 1969 production, for which <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Grimes" title="Tammy Grimes">Tammy Grimes</a> won both the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Performance_by_a_Leading_Actress_in_a_Play" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play">Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play</a><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award_for_Outstanding_Actress_in_a_Play" title="Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play">Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress</a><sup id="cite_ref-awards_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-awards-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during the 1970 awards season. <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bedford" title="Brian Bedford">Brian Bedford</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award_for_Outstanding_Actor_in_a_Play" title="Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play">Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-awards_105-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-awards-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sara_Crowe" title="Sara Crowe">Sara Crowe</a> won an <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Award">Olivier Award</a> for her performance as Sibyl in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-Crowe_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crowe-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For her performance as Amanda in the 1975 production, <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a> was nominated for both the Tony<sup id="cite_ref-tony1_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tony1-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Drama Desk Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2001 London production won three <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Awards">Olivier Awards</a> out of seven nominations, for <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Duncan" title="Lindsay Duncan">Lindsay Duncan</a> as Amanda and the set designs by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Hatley" title="Tim Hatley">Tim Hatley</a> and costumes by Jenny Beavan.<sup id="cite_ref-Olivier2002_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Olivier2002-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Broadway in 2002, the same production won three Tonys out of five nominations, including <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Revival_of_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play">Best Revival</a>, Best Actress (Duncan) and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Scenic_Design" title="Tony Award for Best Scenic Design">Best Scenic Design</a> (Hatley).<sup id="cite_ref-tony1_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tony1-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also won the corresponding three Drama Desk awards, out of seven nominations.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-lahr59-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lahr59_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lahr59_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lahr, p. 59</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (1937), p. 299</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (1937), p. 307.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (1937), p. 308</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (2007), p. 181</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lesley, p. 136</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lesley, p. 137</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morley, p. 196.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kaplan, p. 113</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090105170739/http://www.noelcoward.net/ncmiindex/appendices/appendix3.html">"Appendix 3 (The Relative Popularity of Coward's Works)"</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup>, Noël Coward Music Index, accessed 9 March 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward's opening directions in the text specify merely "a hotel in France", but in Act III (p. 87) Sibyl makes it clear that the hotel is in Deauville</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Gladys Calthrop", <i>Who's Who in the Theatre</i>, 14th edition 1967, Pitman</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"His Master's Voice", <i>The Times</i>, 8 October 1930, p. 19. The original recordings (catalogue number C2043) have been reissued on compact disc on several labels, such as Pavilion, PASTCD9715</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (1937), p. 312; and "Theatres", <i>The Times</i>, 18 December 1930, p. 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adrianne Allen was pregnant and unable to travel to New York. The child to whom she gave birth was <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Massey_(actor)" title="Daniel Massey (actor)">Daniel Massey</a>, to whom Coward was godfather. See Castle, p. 115</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morley, p. 202.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globetheatrelive.com/20032004season/privatelives/studyguide_privatelives.htm">"Private Lives"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090908204101/http://www.globetheatrelive.com/20032004season/privatelives/studyguide_privatelives.htm">Archived</a> 8 September 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Globe Theatre Study Guide, 2004, accessed 17 March 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (2007), p. 219</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morley, pp. 203–05.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Private Lives", <i>The Times</i>, 2 November 1944, p. 6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Castle, p. 119</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Atkinson, Brooks. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/10/05/archives/at-the-theater.html?scp=2">" "At the Theater"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i> (abstract), 5 October 1948, p. 30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2025"><i>Private Lives</i>, 1948"</a>. 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"Coward talk by moonlight ridicules without malice", <i>The Times</i>, 22 September 1972, p. 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewsen, Charles. 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Internet Broadway Database, accessed 6 March 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2001/Entries/2001/6/3_Private_Lives.html">"Review – Private Lives – Stratford Festival – Christopher Hoile"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Review+%E2%80%93+Private+Lives+%E2%80%93+Stratford+Festival+%E2%80%93+Christopher+Hoile&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stage-door.com%2FTheatre%2F2001%2FEntries%2F2001%2F6%2F3_Private_Lives.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APrivate+Lives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Ned_Chaillet" title="Ned Chaillet">Chaillet, Ned</a>. 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The play is in previews here for two weeks before opening May 8 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Liz Taylor and Richard Burton Leave Boston With <i>Private Lives</i>", <i>The Associated Press</i>, 25 April 1983, Domestic News</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rich, Frank. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/theater/theater-private-lives-burton-and-miss-taylor.html?scp=3&sq=%22">"Theater: <i>Private Lives</i>, Burton and Miss Taylor"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>, 9 May 1983, p. 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London.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Evening+Standard&rft.atitle=It%27s+odd+kissing+Toby+Stephens+with+his+wife+in+the+cast%2C+says+Private+Lives+actress+Anna+Chancellor&rft.date=2013-07-04&rft.au=Louise+Jury&rft.au=Josh+Pettitt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.standard.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fits-odd-kissing-toby-stephens-with-his-wife-in-the-cast-says-private-lives-actress-anna-chancellor-8687539.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APrivate+Lives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaul_Taylor2013" class="citation news cs1">Paul Taylor (4 July 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/theatre-review-private-lives--jonathan-kents-rendition-of-cowards-masterpiece-is-the-best-in-a-decade-8687498.html">"Theatre review: Private Lives"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Theatre+review%3A+Private+Lives&rft.date=2013-07-04&rft.au=Paul+Taylor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Farts-entertainment%2Ftheatre-dance%2Freviews%2Ftheatre-review-private-lives--jonathan-kents-rendition-of-cowards-masterpiece-is-the-best-in-a-decade-8687498.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APrivate+Lives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whatsonstage.com/-theatre/news/10-2013/digital-theatre-and-cinemalive-broadcast-private-l_32378.html">"Digital Theatre and CinemaLive broadcast Private Lives"</a>. 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Both the <i>Guardian</i> and <i>Observer</i> reviews were by <a href="/wiki/Ivor_Brown" title="Ivor Brown">Ivor Brown</a>, whose austere view in the former (a daily paper) had evidently mellowed by the time he wrote for the latter, a Sunday paper.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Quoted</i> in Ellis, Samantha. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/17/theatre?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487">"Private Lives, London, September 1930"</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, 17 September 2003, accessed 7 March 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i> classed Coward alongside dramatists from <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a> to <a href="/wiki/J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a> as better on the stage than on the page. See <a href="/wiki/William_Haley" title="William Haley">Edwards, Oliver</a>, "On Reading Plays", <i>The Times</i>, 17 May 1956, p. 13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morgan, Charles. 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font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131333/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fmodern_drama%2Fv048%2F48.4farfan.pdf">Archived</a> 4 March 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (1937), p. 296</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lahr, p. 66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sinfield, Alan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928631">"Private Lives/Public Theater: Noel Coward and the Politics of Homosexual Representation"</a>, <i> Representations</i>, No. 36 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 43–63, accessed 6 March 2011 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Loss, Archie K. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831250">"Waiting for Amanda: Noël Coward as Comedian of the Absurd,"</a> <i>Journal of Modern Literature</i>, Vol. 11, No. 2 (July 1984), pp. 299–306, accessed 6 March 2011.<span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chiothia, Jean. "Playing with the audience" in Kaplan, p. 111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 8 February 1932, p. 10; Hall, Mordaunt. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E07E1DF153DEE32A2575AC1A9649D946094D6CF">"Spatting Couples of <i>Private Lives</i> Meet With High Favor"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i> 19 December 1931, accessed 6 March 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coward (2007), p. 279</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu/items/show/1985">"The Campbell Playhouse: Private Lives"</a>. <i>Orson Welles on the Air, 1938–1946</i>. Indiana University Bloomington<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Orson+Welles+on+the+Air%2C+1938%E2%80%931946&rft.atitle=The+Campbell+Playhouse%3A+Private+Lives&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Forsonwelles.indiana.edu%2Fitems%2Fshow%2F1985&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APrivate+Lives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Private Lives on Television", <i>The Times</i>, 17 January 1959, p. 4; and Morley, Sheridan. "The darker side of Coward: Private Lives, BBC 1", <i>The Times</i>, 29 December 1976, p. 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It was reissued as a part of the BBC Audio Collection under the title <i>Noël Coward Double Bill: Private Lives & Hayfever</i>. It is also found on a BBC America audio cassette, <i>Private Lives/Present Laughter</i> (1989) and was rereleased in CD format by BBC in February 2010.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scofieldsperformances.com/audio2.htm">"Private Lives"</a>. BBC<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Tonyawards.com, accessed 6 March 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dramadesk.com/1974_1975dd.html">Drama Desk Awards and Nominations, 1974–1975</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20080704130506/http://www.dramadesk.com/1974_1975dd.html">Archived</a> 4 July 2008 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a>. Dramadesk.com, accessed 6 March 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jones, Kenneth. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/75262-Millie-Is-Big-2002-Tony-Award-Winner-The-Goat-Grabs-Best-Play">"<i>Millie</i> Is Big 2002 Tony Award-Winner; <i>The Goat</i> Grabs Best Play"</a>. Playbill.com, 3 June 2002</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dramadesk.com/2001_2002dd.html">Drama Desk Awards and Nominations, 2001–2002</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080704130017/http://www.dramadesk.com/2001_2002dd.html">Archived</a> 4 July 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Dramadesk.com, accessed 6 March 2011</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Private_Lives&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castle,_Charles" class="mw-redirect" title="Castle, Charles">Castle, Charles</a>. 1972. <i>Noël.</i> London: W. H. Allen. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-491-00534-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-491-00534-2">0-491-00534-2</a>.</li> <li>Coward, Noël. 1930. <i>Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts.</i> London: Methuen. Reissue, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-74490-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-74490-6">0-413-74490-6</a>.</li> <li>Coward, Noël. 1937. <i>Present Indicative. Autobiography to 1931.</i> London: Heinemann. Methuen reissue, 2004 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-413-77413-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-413-77413-2">978-0-413-77413-2</a></li> <li>Coward, Noël; Barry Day (ed). 2007 <i>The Letters of Noël Coward</i>. London: Methuen. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7136-8578-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7136-8578-7">978-0-7136-8578-7</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Hoare" title="Philip Hoare">Hoare, Philip</a>. 1995. <i>Noël Coward, A Biography.</i> London: <a href="/wiki/Sinclair-Stevenson" title="Sinclair-Stevenson">Sinclair-Stevenson</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85619-265-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-85619-265-2">1-85619-265-2</a>.</li> <li>Kaplan, Joel and Sheila Stowel. 2000. <i>Look Back in Pleasure: Noël Coward Reconsidered.</i> London: Methuen. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-75500-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-75500-2">0-413-75500-2</a>.</li> <li>Lahr, John. 1982. <i>Coward the Playwright.</i> London: Methuen. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-48050-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-48050-X">0-413-48050-X</a>.</li> <li>Lesley, Cole. 1976. <i>The Life of Noël Coward.</i> London: Cape. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-224-01288-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-224-01288-6">0-224-01288-6</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Morley" title="Sheridan Morley">Morley, Sheridan</a>. 1969. <i>A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward.</i> Rev. ed. 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