Private Lives

Text of the day: “All the futile moralists who try to make life unbearable. Laugh at them. Be flippant. Laugh at everything, all their sacred shibboleths. Flippancy brings out the acid in their damned sweetness and light.” (Elyot in Noël Coward’s Private Lives)

Anna Chancellor comedy Gielgud Theatre Noël Coward Private Lives satire Toby Stephens West End