Following breaking box office records in Bath, Richmond, Chichester and Cambridge, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Moss Empires have announced further tour dates for The Nigel Havers Theatre Company production of Noel Coward’s gloriously entertaining Private Lives.
This will be the inaugural show for The Nigel Havers Theatre Company, which will be touring the country with a wonderful line-up of theatrical gems. The UK Tour of Private Lives will begin at Theatre Royal Bath on 28 October 2021 and go through to 23 April 2022, finishing at the Theatre Royal Nottingham.
The production stars Olivier Award-winning Patricia Hodge, one of the country’s most loved actresses, as Amanda and Nigel Havers, ever suave and thoroughly charming, as Elyot, the role taken by Noël Coward himself in the original production in 1930. Astonishingly, it is the first time Nigel Havers has appeared in a Coward play on stage. Dugald Bruce-Lockhart plays Victor, Natalie Walter Sibyl and Aïcha Kossoko Louise.
Coward’s dazzling comic masterpiece is both a scintillatingly witty and scathingly vitriolic study of the rich and reckless in love. Elyot and Amanda, who were once married, find themselves in adjoining rooms in the same hotel on the French coast, both on honeymoon with their new partners. Their initial horror quickly evaporates and soon they’re sharing cocktails and a romantic serenade.
Private Lives will be directed by Christopher Luscombe, with set and costume designs by Simon Higlett, lighting design by Mark Jonathan, music by Nigel Hess, sound design by Jeremy Dunn, fight direction by Malcolm Ranson and casting by Sarah Bird.
Theatre Royal Bath
28 October – 6 November
01225 448844
theatreroyal.org.uk
Richmond Theatre
9 – 13 November
0844 871 7651*
atgtickets.com/Richmond
Chichester Festival Theatre
16 – 20 November
01243 781312
cft.org.uk
Cambridge Arts Theatre
22 – 27 November
01223 503333
cambridgeartstheatre.com
2022
Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
17 – 22 January
01227 787787
marlowetheatre.com
Hall for Cornwall
25 – 29 January
01872 262466
hallforcornwall.co.uk
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
1 – 5 February
01242 572 573
everymantheatre.org.uk
Torquay Princess
8 – 12 February
0844 871 7615*
atgtickets.com/princess-theatre-torquay
The Lowry
14 – 19 February
0343 208 6000
thelowry.com
Sheffield Lyceum
21 – 26 February
0114 249 6000
sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
Oxford Playhouse
28 February – 5 March
01865 305305
oxfordplayhouse.com
Poole Lighthouse
14 – 19 March
01202 280000
lighthousepoole.co.uk
Guildford Yvonne Arnaud
21 – 26 March
01483 44 00 00
yvonne-arnaud.co.uk
Norwich Theatre Royal
28 March – 2 April
01603 630 000
norwichtheatre.org
Theatre Royal Brighton
11 – 16 April
0844 871 7615*
atgtickets.com/brighton
Nottingham Theatre Royal
18 – 23 April
0115 989 5555
trch.co.uk
