Stage: Private Lives Public Screening

For those of you unlucky enough to have missed the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor, it has now been captured at London’s Gielgud Theatre, and will be in UK cinemas for one night only on Thursday 6 February 2014.

Following critical acclaim, (Latest 7 loved it) and a sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Noël Coward’s dazzling and irresistible comedy blazed across the West End stage at the Gielgud Theatre, where it played a limited season from 22 June to 21 September 2013, proving that Noël Coward still has the power to thrill, provoke and delight.

Elyot Chase (Toby Stephens) and Amanda Prynne (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 French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past.

Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are joined in the cast by Anthony Calf as Victor Prynne, Anna- Louise Plowman as Sibyl Chase and Sue Kelvin as Louise. Noël Coward’s Private Lives has design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Paul Groothuis and music by Matthew Scott.

This is the second production to be distributed as part of CinemaLive and Digital Theatre’s West End Theatre Series.

The West End Theatre Series is the first time that productions from the West End’s leading commercial theatre producers are available in High Definition as a global cinema series. Other countries taking part in the series include the USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, Russia and Brazil.

Noël Coward’s Private Lives will be screened in select UK cinemas from 6 February 2014. For more information, ticketing and participating cinemas visit www.cinemalive.com