Noel Coward’s Private Lives
Thurs 27 Aug to Tues 1 Sept - Mon 7 to Sat 12 Sept
7.30pm. Matinee at 2.30pm on 1st, 8th and 10th Sept
SUMMER REP 2009
Sparkling with witty retorts and razor-sharp one-liners, the play is set on the French Riviera, where former husband and wife Amanda and Elyot are looking forward to a romantic honeymoon with their new spouses.
But, when the happily divorced pair discover they will be holidaying with their new partners in adjacent rooms at the same glamorous hotel, old passions - and resentments - are rekindled, and they find that, as Amanda says, "very few people are completely normal, really deep down in their private lives."
The comedy, which is the final play in the Little Theatre's summer repertory season, stars Eleanor Buchan and Henry Everett as Amanda and Elyot, with Eleanor Buchan and Simon Stanhope playing new spouses Sybil and Victor.
Playing French maid Louise is 18-year-old former Paston College Lucy Gooch, who is shortly due to take up a place studying for a degree in drama and theatre studies at Royal Holloway University, London. Lucy, who eventually hopes to win a place at drama school, played the lead role in last year's Little Theatre production of Sandy Wilson's musical romance The Boyfriend, also performing in a music hall extravaganza at the venue.
Summer Rep ticket prices:
Full £13.00 Matinees £10.00 Under 18s £8.00 First nights £1 off full price
Friends season ticket – buy a season ticket for all five plays and get 20% off the total (Cost £52.00)
Public season ticket – buy a season ticket for all five plays and get 10% off the total (Cost £58.50).