York University drama student Clemency Wall is directing Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” for a Dulverton Players production of the famous comedy in early September.
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.
Noel Coward wrote the sparkling “Private Lives” in four days in 1929, from his bed in a Shanghai hotel whilst suffering from an attack of flu.
Amanda Prynne 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. This is Coward at his mischievous best in a play for which he also wrote the haunting theme tune, “Someday I’ll Find You.”
Wednesday, September 2 – Saturday, September 5. Dulverton Town Hall at 7.30 pm
Directed by Clemency Wall. Produced by Christine Dubery
Featuring Suzy Wall as Amanda Prynne, Tamsin Blackmore as Sybil Chase, Suzanne Thompson as Louise, Richard Lethbridge as Victor Prynne, & Charlie Blanning as Elyot Chase
Tickets available from Dulverton Post Office - Telephone 01398 323474
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