Private Lives, Noel Coward
Private Lives, Noel Coward
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Private Lives

Author: Noel Coward

Narrator: Rosalind Ayres, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2005

Synopsis

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Marnie Mosiman, Ian Ogilvy, Begonya Piazza and Kristoffer Tabori.

About Noel Coward

Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sketchbook on June 12, 2015

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Now, kiss me, you poor darling. Though "Blithe Spirit" is surely Coward's best play, "Private Lives" is his most famous, most romantic -- and most produced. NYT Times critic Clive Barnes called it "a little masterpiece." First seen in 1930, co-starring Cowar......more

Goodreads review by Raya راية on October 01, 2017

"Love is no use unless it's wise, and kind, and undramatic. Something steady and sweet, to smooth out your nerves when you're tired. Something tremendously cosy; and unflurried by scenes and jealousies. That's what I want, what I've always wanted really."......more

Goodreads review by C.E. on March 03, 2011

Read this + Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf back-to-back and you'll never fall innocently in love again.......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on December 21, 2016

After Blithe Spirit, Private Lives is Noël Coward’s most famous play, which packed the house in its 1930 West End run, 1931 Broadway run, and many subsequent revivals, several of which won Tony and Olivier awards. The 1931 film adaptation was a great hit. And I don’t get any of this. I found Private......more

Goodreads review by Julie on January 11, 2024

sidder til undervisning og min professor har lige kaldt den "artsy-fartsy"......more

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