Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition): an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts (Warbler Classics Annotated Edi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798902670247)

Sophisticated, scandalous, and as sparkling as ever-Private Lives remains Noël Coward's most entertaining comedy of manners. When divorced lovers Elyot and Amanda find themselves honeymooning with their new spouses-in adjacent hotel rooms-it takes only a candlelit argument and a kiss to reignite old passions. What follows is an elegant battle of wits filled with cutting repartee, broken records, and flying cocktails. First performed in 1930 with Coward and his great friend Gertrude Lawrence in the lead roles, Private Lives defined the glamorous, brittle humor of its age.

This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces the play as it first appeared in book form and includes the critical essay "Waiting for Amanda" by Archie K. Loss.