Noël Coward's “Private Lives,” a 1930 comedy of manners is now on the Arizona Theatre Company stage in Tucson.
Kathleen Allen Special to the Arizona Daily Star It’s hard to go wrong with Noël Coward, and especially with “Private Lives,” his 1930 comedy of manners now on the Arizona Theatre Company stage.It’s almost like music.Despite a solid cast, beautiful costumes , and an impressive set , ATC’s “Private Lives” falls flat.The story is about a divorced couple that winds up in the same hotel with their new spouses.
People are also reading… While the original production was set in Paris, Sanchez has moved this to Argentina in the ‘30s in the first act, and modern-day Uruguay in the second. There may be a reason for that but it eludes. The end result is confusion that the costumes are of the ‘30s and then shift to 92 years later.
There’s some wonderful physical comedy in the production, but that, too, seems out of place in this Coward play.
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