New tour dates announced for PRIVATE LIVES starring Patricia Hodge & Nigel Havers

Photo credit: John Swannell

The Nigel Havers Theatre Company’s inaugural production of Noel Coward’s gloriously entertaining Private Lives is set to open at Theatre Royal Bath on 28 October 2021, before touring the country with a wonderful line-up of theatrical gems. 

The production stars Olivier Award-winning Patricia Hodge, one of the country’s most loved actresses, as Amanda and Nigel Havers, ever suave and thoroughly charming, as Elyot, the role taken by Noël Coward himself in the original production in 1930.  Astonishingly, it is the first time Nigel Havers has appeared in a Coward play on stage.  They will appear alongside Dugald Bruce-Lockhart as Victor, Natalie Walter as Sibyl and Aïcha Kossoko as Louise.

Coward’s dazzling comic masterpiece is both a scintillatingly witty and scathingly vitriolic study of the rich and reckless in love.  Elyot and Amanda, who were once married, find themselves in adjoining rooms in the same hotel on the French coast, both on honeymoon with their new partners. Their initial horror quickly evaporates and soon they’re sharing cocktails and a romantic serenade. 

Private Lives will be directed by Christopher Luscombe, with set and costume design by Simon Higlett, lighting by Mark Jonathan, music by Nigel Hess, and sound by Jeremy Dunn.

Following its run in Bath, the production will visit Richmond, Chichester and Cambridge, with further dates to be announced.