Auditions! Auditions for Bennington Community Theater’s Winter play are December 4th 1-3 pm and December 5th 6-8 at the Bennington Performing Arts Center, 331 Main Street in Bennington VT. Bennington Community Theater is pleased to announce auditions for its winter production of Noel Coward’s acclaimed comedy of manners PRIVATE LIVES. Sunday,…
(Dorset, VT– February 26, 2019) Dorset Theatre Festival, under the leadership of Artistic Director Dina Janis, is proud to announce its 42nd Season, featuring the classic revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives directed by Evan Yionoulis (June 20 – July 6), the World Premiere of Dig, written and directed by…
Burns and Cane found that this “Private Lives” has great physical comedy, but at the expense of both script and character.
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”– Noel Coward, “Private Lives” 1929 Certainly Noel Coward (1899-1973) wasn’t what was considered “normal” in his private life. A closeted gay man, as one pretty much had to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2004 “We’re talking about a style that became a way of being for a lot of people. English cultural history between the world wars is, in some extremely large part, Noël Coward. He put himself into the narrative the English tell themselves about their…
