Private Lives
T1363053559
A divorced couple are reunited whilst honeymooning with their second spouses. Moonlight on the Mediterranean - a beautiful young woman drifts onto a hotel balcony. A young man joins her. They embrace, drink in the scene. This is a dream of a honey moon come true. They part. The young man is alone. A band plays. On the next balcony another young woman appears. She sings a song. The young man gives a horrified gasp and freezes. He knows that tune only too well. And he knows that voice. He used to be married to it.
Archive :: production:T1363053559, play:S4667, venue:V820
Production details
Seventy years after its original production, Volcano Theatre Company replay this comedy of manners in a crumbling hospice-come-residential-home for lost souls. This production looks beneath the immaculate surface of Coward's light and brittle backchat, revealing four bewildered, broken characters going through the motions of falling in and out of love (and madness)
