Noël Coward’s scintillating comic masterpiece Private Lives, starring Nigel Havers (Coronation Street, ITV) and Patricia Hodge (Miranda, BBC), heads to London’s Ambassadors Theatre from 31 August for a limited 12-week run, it has been announced.

A dazzling comedy which is both a witty and scathing study of the rich and reckless in love, Private Lives is one of Noël Coward’s most beloved plays.

Ex-spouses Elyot and Amanda are honeymooning with their new partners in the South of France only to find themselves in adjacent hotel rooms. Their initial horror evaporates as, in no time at all, they’re rekindling their previous passion. But when they daringly elope to Amanda’s Parisian flat their lust thaws as quickly as it had reignited and they resume the slanging match which drove them apart in the first place…

Also in the cast are Dugald Bruce-Lockhart (The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson) and Natalie Walter (Jerusalem), with direction by Christopher Luscombe.

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