Who wrote the play 'Private Lives'?
Private Lives Private Lives Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risqué. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, "Some Day I'll Find You", for the play. After touring the British provinces, the play opened the new Phoenix Theatre in London in 1930,
Private Lives the hotel's in-house museum. The production was directed by James Mirrione, Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts, NYUSH Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and featured actors from the Ensemble Class at NYUSH, directed by Professor Dianna Heldman. The original production received mixed reviews. Coward later wrote, "The critics described "Private Lives" variously as 'tenuous, thin, brittle, gossamer, iridescent, and delightfully daring'. All of which connoted in the public mind cocktails, repartee and irreverent allusions to copulation, thereby causing a gratifying number of respectable people to queue up at the box office." "The Times" wrote, "What an entertaining play it is!", but