THE last person any newly wed wants to meet on their honeymoon is their former spouse.

In Noel Coward's mischievous comedy play, not only one, but two people meet up with their ex-partners.

One of Britain's best loved playwright, Coward wrote the sparkling Private Lives in four days in 1929, from his bed in a Shanghai hotel while suffering from an attack of flu.

It starts with Amanda Prynne who is spending the first night of her honeymoon with her second husband, Victor, at a Deauville hotel. What she doesn’t know is that in the adjacent suite is her first husband, Elyot, also on honeymoon with his second wife, Sybil.

When the volatile Amanda and Elyot meet again for the first time in five years, sparks are sure to fly.

York University drama student Clemency Wall is directing Noel Coward’s Private Lives for a Dulverton Players production.

The cast will certainly make a change from her familiar fellow students. Included are two school teachers, a postman, a racing journalist, and, from the famous Dulverton Bookshop, her mum, Suzy Wall.

This is Coward at his wicked best in a play for which he also wrote the haunting theme tune, “Someday I’ll Find You.”

Wednesday, September 2 to Saturday, September 5. Dulverton Town Hall at 7.30 pm. Tickets available from Dulverton Post Office - Tel: 01398 323474.