Private Lives: Breaking records

Hello, and welcome to the Home Chat podcast from the Noel Coward Foundation, brought to you from the Noel Coward Room in Hoborne.

My name's James Harvey.

I'm sat around Coward's desk with archivist at the Noel Coward Archive Trust, Julie Gambling.

Hello, James.

And welcome, Julie, and everyone else to Home Chat, the Noel Coward podcast, season three.

We're exciting.

Cue applause.

We're delving into the stories behind more Coward productions, starting with the one listeners across the world, have been crying out for.

It's Coward's most famous play, question mark.

It's Private Lives.

It is indeed.

Now, written and first performed in 1930, Private Lives opens on the balcony of a French hotel where Elliot and Sybil are on their honeymoon.

But when Elliot's ex-wife, Amanda, appears with her new partner in the room next door, the once and future couple abandon their rebounds and run away together to Paris.

where they find the only thing worse than living apart is living together.

It's been called one of the funniest plays of the 20th century.

It's been revived and re-revived countless times on the West End, Broadway, and in multiple languages across the globe.

It's a comedy of manners, marriage, and masochism about two people who get along so well they just can't help wrestling on the carpet in more ways than one.

Julie, how do you feel about Private Lives? Do you like Private oh

Hello, and welcome to the Home Chat podcast from the Noel Coward Foundation, brought to you from the Noel Coward Room in Hoborne.

My name's James Harvey.

I'm sat around Coward's desk with archivist at the Noel Coward Archive Trust, Julie Gambling.

Hello, James.

And welcome, Julie, and everyone else to Home Chat, the Noel Coward podcast, season three.

We're exciting.

Cue applause.

We're delving into the stories behind more Coward productions, starting with the one listeners across the world, have been crying out for.

It's Coward's most famous play, question mark.

It's Private Lives.

It is indeed.

Now, written and first performed in 1930, Private Lives opens on the balcony of a French hotel where Elliot and Sybil are on their honeymoon.

But when Elliot's ex-wife, Amanda, appears with her new partner in the room next door, the once and future couple abandon their rebounds and run away together to Paris.

where they find the only thing worse than living apart is living together.

It's been called one of the funniest plays of the 20th century.

It's been revived and re-revived countless times on the West End, Broadway, and in multiple languages across the globe.

It's a comedy of manners, marriage, and masochism about two people who get along so well they just can't help wrestling on the carpet in more ways than one.

Julie, how do you feel about Private Lives? Do you like Private oh