Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Privates Lives was filmed live at London's Gielgud Theatre.
Acting
Stephens and Chancellor weaponize charm—then detonate it.
Writing
Coward's dialogue: cruel, glittering, and weirdly romantic.
Production
Gielgud Theatre intimacy preserved—every raised eyebrow lands.
Director
Robert Delamere
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anna Chancellor is Coward's actual great-niece, making this essentially a family reunion with extra screaming.
Coward wrote the play in four days after a fever dream of his own disastrous relationships—explains the rawness.
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