Following a sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Noël Coward’s dazzling and irresistible comedy, Private Lives, transfers to the West End for a strictly limited season from 22nd June until 21st September 2013 starring Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor.
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, played by Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor, are glamorous, rich, reckless . . . and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a Riviera hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past.
This much-anticipated transfer is set to blaze across the West End stage this summer in an explosive production that proves Noël Coward still has the power to thrill, provoke and delight.
250 top price tickets will be made available for Private Lives each week at just £10 per ticket. 170 tickets per week will be released for general sale in May. The remaining tickets will be day seats, 10 per performance, released at the Gielgud Box Office from 10am on the day of the performance.
Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jonathan Church, said “We are absolutely delighted that the final production staged during our 50th anniversary season is transferring to the West End. The passionate on-stage chemistry between Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens captivated audiences and critics here last summer. Private Lives thrilled us by appealing to a younger Chichester audience, so it’s particularly exciting that we’re able to offer daily top price tickets at £10 for the West End production".
Toby Stephens' theatre credits include Danton’s Death (National Theatre), The Real Thing (The Old Vic),A Doll’s House and Betrayal (both for Donmar Warehouse), the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Coriolanus(RSC) and Phedre (Almeida Theatre and Broadway). Screen credits include the BBC 2 comedy drama series Vexed, Jane Eyreand Die Another Day. He has also featured in Classic Chandler for BBC Radio 4.
Anna Chancellor's theatre credits include Chichester Festival Theatre’s South Downs and The Browning Version, which transferred to the West End in 2012, The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), Creditors (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway), The Observer (National Theatre), Boston Marriage (Donmar Warehouse and West End), King Lear(RSC, London and Japan) and Stanley (National Theatre and Broadway, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination). Television and film credits include Pramface, The Hour (for which she received a BAFTA nomination), Four Weddings and a Funeral and Pride and Prejudice.
Photo Credit: Ben Delfont
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