Who wrote the play 'Private Lives'?
"Elyot's head, an action that leads to total destruction of their hotel room. Rushing out, Amanda meets Victor and Sybil, who have tracked down the prodigal duo, and everyone becomes involved in the dispute. Things finally calm down, and the two couples meet for breakfast the next day, but when Victor and Sybil begin to fight, Elyot and Amanda walk out and depart the resort by train. When Noël Coward's play proved to be a hit both in London and on Broadway, MGM executive Irving Thalberg bought the rights for a film adaptation starring his wife, Norma Shearer. Coward was"
"""Private Lives ""and ""Hay Fever"". Charles leaves at once, and the unseen ghosts throw things and destroy the room as soon as he has gone. (In the David Lean film version, the ghosts thwart Charles's attempt to escape, and his car is again sabotaged; he crashes and joins them as a ghost, with Elvira at one arm and Ruth at the other.) The original West End cast was as follows: The play was first produced at the Manchester Opera House in June 1941, and then premiered in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre on 2 July 1941, later transferring"
"Privacy (play) Privacy is a 2014 play by James Graham. The play looks at how the personal information we share is used by the government and other corporations, and how this affects our security. It was inspired by revelations by Edward Snowden regarding government surveillance. Privacy had its world premiere production at the Donmar Warehouse, London with an official opening night on 22 April 2014, following previews from 10 April. Its limited run concluded on 31 May 2014. Directed by Josie Rourke, the cast consisted of Paul Chahidi, Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Coy, Joshua McGuire, Nina Sosanya and Michelle Terry. The"
"""Private Lives"" which is all of forty years"". The play was twice adapted into silent films: a British one in 1917, directed by Maurice Elvey, with Vanbrugh reprising her role, and an American one in 1919, directed by Harry Beaumont, starring Tom Moore. An early television production of excerpts from the play, directed by Royston Morley, was broadcast by the BBC in April 1938. Morley also directed the BBC's first post-war television production of the play, with Ronald Ward as Quex (1947). Later BBC television versions were transmitted in 1953 with André Morrell as Quex, and 1983, starring Anton Rodgers,"
"Private Eyes (play) Private Eyes is a 1996 drama by Steven Dietz about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a ""comedy of suspicion"", as the story is brought in multiple layers and the audience is repeatedly tricked to believe that the current situation is real. Some critics - though not Dietz himself - consider it an homage to Tom Stoppard's 1982 ""The Real Thing"", a play which features some similar themes and techniques. Husband and wife Matthew and Lisa are rehearsing a two- or perhaps three-person play. The British director Adrian uses his position of power to"
"Private Life (2018 film) Private Life is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Desmin Borges and Denis O'Hare. The film focuses on Richard and Rachel, a middle-aged married couple of writers, who are desperately trying to have a child by any means possible. The film had its world premiere on January 18, 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was released on October 5, 2018, by Netflix. Richard (Paul Giamatti) and Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) are a childless middle-aged couple desperately"
"play ""psychologically unstable"", and John Lahr in a 1982 study of Coward's plays writes, ""Elyot and Amanda's outrageousness is used to propound the aesthetics of high camp – an essentially homosexual view of the world that justifies detachment. However, in a 1992 article on ""Coward and the Politics of Homosexual Representation"", Alan Sinfield, examining gay aspects of Coward's major plays, mentions ""Private Lives"" only in passing. The critic Michael Billington writes of the piece, ""It is not a closet gay play but a classic about the mysterious charm of androgeny."" The play has also been analysed as part of the"
"stage when ""Private Lives"" opens at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre. The initial reviews are less than positive and Richard is uncomfortable when he realizes that aspects of the play are a little ""too"" similar to their real lives. He proposes canceling the show altogether, but Elizabeth (who is also the producer) refuses to quit. Despite her wish to see the play through, Elizabeth continues to prove challenging; she arrives late for shows, brings all her pets along and mugs for the audience. Richard's patience wears thin and they eventually have a fight that comes to blows. After they apologize to one"
"Private Fears in Public Places Private Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes. In 2006, it was made into a film ""Cœurs"", directed by Alain Resnais. The title was originally chosen for a play Ayckbourn was writing in 1994, but which was replaced by another new play, ""Communicating Doors"". Ten years later he used the title for this very different play — following the practice of"
"itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zoë Akins. Her Private Life Her Private Life is a surviving 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American. The film had been considered a lost film. However, as July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive. This was Korda's second sound film, following ""The Squall"". It is"
"Personal Call Personal Call is a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and first performed on the BBC Radio Light Programme on Monday, 31 May 1954. The play reuses the character of Inspector Narracott from the 1931 novel ""The Sittaford Mystery"". Christie's official biography states that the play was written after she and her husband, Max Mallowan, returned from their annual summer season at the archaeological dig at Nimrud in 1952. The producer of the play, Ayton Whitaker, found the script to be ""first rate"" saying that it made, ""full use of radio techniques and possibilities."" It appears that"
"The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the ""real"" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for ""The Strand"" magazine. It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Doctor Watson. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creators and writers of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series ""Sherlock"", credited ""The Private Life"
"The Private Secretary The Private Secretary is a 1883 farce in three acts, by Charles Hawtrey. The play, adapted from a German original, depicts the vicissitudes of a mild young clergyman, innocently caught up in the machinations of two irresponsible young men who are bent on escaping their creditors. When the play opened in London the notices for the piece were hostile, and it was seen as a stop-gap in the schedule of the theatrical company presenting it. Despite these predictions the play ran in London for 1,469 performances. The critics found much more to praise in the performances of"
"extravaganza ""Cavalcade"" (1931), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies ""Private Lives"" (1930), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and ""Design for Living"" (1932). Coward said that after ""Private Lives"", he felt that the public enjoyed seeing him and Lawrence together on stage, and so he wrote the play cycle ""Tonight at 8:30"" as ""acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself"". The cycle consists of 10 one-act plays: Four of the plays in the cycle ""break into spontaneous song... in the most unexpected places"". The songs from ""Tonight"
"Brief Lives (play) Brief Lives is a British play about John Aubrey, a 17th-century Englishman who met and kept accounts of many of the famous men of his day, including René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Christopher Wren. It premiered in 1967 and became one of the most successful one person shows in history. Roy Dotrice played Aubrey in many productions. The play came out of an episode about Aubrey in ""Famous Gossips"" (1965), the BBC television series Garland made with Alan Bennett. The play was profiled in the William Goldman book """". The play originally opened at the Hampstead Theatre"
"fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae, whom she met in 1985 at the Royal Shakespeare Company. They live in north London. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991. Duncan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Lindsay Duncan Lindsay Vere Duncan, (born 7 November 1950) is a British actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in ""Private Lives"" and a Tony Award nomination for her role in ""Les Liaisons Dangereuses"". Duncan has starred in several plays by"
"Privates on Parade Privates on Parade: A Play with Songs in Two Acts is a 1977 farce by English playwright Peter Nichols (book and lyrics), with music by Denis King. The play is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a mostly gay British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaysia in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency. The drama draws upon Nichols' own experiences in the real-life Combined Services Entertainment, the postwar successor to ENSA, Entertainments National Service Association. The play is noteworthy, inter alia, for a"
"Audley starred in a 1959 presentation, and Alec McCowen and Penelope Keith took the leads in a BBC production in 1976. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation starring Paul Scofield and Patricia Routledge on 20 December 1975. In January 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast another adaptation of the play directed by Sally Avens, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Amanda and Bill Nighy as Elyot. When ""Private Lives"" premiered, the various awards now given for achievement in musical theatre, such as the Olivier Awards and Tony Awards, had not yet been created, and therefore the original productions of the play"
"The Secret Rapture (play) The Secret Rapture is a 1988 British play by David Hare. Its premiere in the Lyttelton auditorium of the Royal National Theatre was directed by Howard Davies. British revivals of the play have included one at the Salisbury Playhouse in 2001 and at the Lyric Theatre, London in 2003. Hare later adapted it as 1993 film of the same title, also directed by Davies. It is set in 1980s Britain and examines the impact of Thatcherism on personal relationships within the family of a junior government minister after her father's death. Hare states that its title"
"of a couple apparently meant for each other. ""Private Eyes"" was first performed in March 1996 by the Arizona Theatre Company. It gained wide recognition when it was presented as part of the 1997 Humana Festival of New American Plays, a widely attended yearly event at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Though it never had a Broadway appearance, it has been Dietz's most commercially successful play, with continued performances worldwide. Private Eyes (play) Private Eyes is a 1996 drama by Steven Dietz about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a ""comedy of suspicion"", as the story is"
"consensus """"Private Life"" uses one couple's bumpy journey to take an affecting look at an easily identifiable - and too rarely dramatized - rite of adult passage."" On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 83 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating ""universal acclaim"". Private Life (2018 film) Private Life is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Desmin Borges and Denis O'Hare. The film focuses on Richard and Rachel, a middle-aged married couple of writers, who are desperately trying"
"A Private Wire A Private Wire is a one-act musical ""vaudeville"" operetta with a libretto by Frank Desprez and Arnold Felix and music by Percy Reeve. It was first produced at the Savoy Theatre on 31 March 1883 to 1 January 1884 as a companion piece to Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Iolanthe"". The piece also toured from March to July 1884. No copy of a printed libretto or vocal score is in the British Library. A copy of the libretto is in the Lord Chamberlain's collection. The fashion in the late Victorian era was to present long evenings in the theatre,"
"received no such awards. The first Broadway production of ""Private Lives"" to receive major theatre awards was the 1969 production, for which Tammy Grimes won both the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress during the 1970 awards season. Brian Bedford won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor. Sara Crowe won an Olivier Award for her performance as Sibyl in 1991. For her performance as Amanda in the 1975 production, Maggie Smith was nominated for both the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards. The 2001 London production won three Olivier"
"earnest young man wrote a book about my plays. It was very intelligent and absolute rubbish."" In a 2005 article, Penny Farfan analyses the play from the point of view of queer theory, arguing that ""the subversiveness of [Coward's] sexual identity is reflected in his work,"" and that ""Private Lives"" questions ""the conventional gender norms on which compulsory heterosexuality depends."" Positing that the leading characters' portrayal as equals is evidence in support of this theory, Farfan instances the famous image (shown above) of Coward and Lawrence as Elyot and Amanda smoking and ""posing as mirror opposites"". Coward himself pronounced the"
"Michael Blakemore. Privates on Parade Privates on Parade: A Play with Songs in Two Acts is a 1977 farce by English playwright Peter Nichols (book and lyrics), with music by Denis King. The play is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a mostly gay British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaysia in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency. The drama draws upon Nichols' own experiences in the real-life Combined Services Entertainment, the postwar successor to ENSA, Entertainments National Service Association. The play is noteworthy, inter alia,"
"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 American historical romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland. Based on the play ""Elizabeth the Queen"" by Maxwell Anderson—which had a successful run on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in the lead roles—the film fictionalizes the historical relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. The screenplay was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie. It was the fifth of nine films that Flynn and de"
"The Private Life of Genghis Khan ""The Private Life of Genghis Khan"" is a short story written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman. It is based in part on a sketch devised by Graham Chapman, and written by Chapman and Adams for the 1975 TV show pilot ""Out of the Trees"". It appears in ""The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book"" and some versions of ""The Salmon of Doubt"". It is also available on Douglas Adams' website. Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged (a recurring character from some of Adams' novels) makes a brief appearance in the story. The short story"
"active duty, a friend suggested he entertain the troops by performing as part of the Entertainments National Service Association. In 1942, the Noël Coward play ""Private Lives"" was touring the military stations and hospitals in the British Isles, and the actor playing the lead role of Elyot Chase was called to service. Cushing agreed to take his place with very little notice or time to prepare, and earned a salary of ten pounds a week for the job. During this tour he met Helen Beck, a former dancer who was starring in the lead female role of Amanda Prynne. They"
"The Private Lives of Adam and Eve The Private Lives of Adam and Eve is a 1960 Spectacolor comedy film starring Mickey Rooney (who also co-directed), and Mamie Van Doren. It is an American B-movie in which the plot revolves around a modern couple who dream that they are Adam and Eve. Others of their acquaintance assume the roles of various characters from the Book of Genesis during the fantasy sequences. A bus heading toward Reno, Nevada is being driven by Doc Bayles, whose passengers include a traveling salesman, Hal Sanders, and a runaway teen, Vangie Harper. Feuding couples begin"
"Private Lessons (1981 film) Private Lessons is a 1981 American sex comedy film starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley Jr. The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, ""Philly"". Greenburg appears as the manager of a motel in the film. ""Private Lessons"" was highly controversial at the time of its release, for its plot line of a sexual relationship between a boy in his mid-teens and his 30-something housekeeper. It was one of Kristel's few major American film appearances; she was better known to European audiences for her ""Emmanuelle"" films which"
"Her Private Life Her Private Life is a surviving 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon and Holmes Herbert. The plot concerns an English aristocrat who causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American. The film had been considered a lost film. However, as July 2016, according to the Library of Congress, the film was found in an Italian archive. This was Korda's second sound film, following ""The Squall"". It is a remake of the 1925 silent film ""Déclassée"" by Robert G. Vignola, which was"
"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. The film premiered on February 9, 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival before opening in the United Kingdom on July 10. Following a showing at the"
"dialogue remained entirely with the six onstage characters and one offstage character. The film won the Silver Lion award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Private Fears in Public Places Private Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes. In 2006, it was made into a film ""Cœurs"", directed by Alain Resnais. The title was originally chosen for a play Ayckbourn was writing in 1994,"