B Sharp: Private Lives

AMANDA: Darling, I believe you’re talking nonsense.

ELYOT: So is everyone else in the long run. Let’s be superficial and pity the poor Philosophers. Let’s blow trumpets and squeakers, and enjoy the party as much as we can, like very small, quite idiotic school-children. Let’s savour the delight of the moment. Come and kiss me, darling, before your body rots, and worms pop in and out of your eye sockets.

Amanda has just married Victor and gone on her honeymoon. Elyot has just married Sybil and gone on his honeymoon. To the same hotel. Elyot and Amanda are about to find out all over again why they got divorced in the first place.

The censors did their best to ban the play when Coward wrote it in 1930 (as a vehicle for himself) and it has been refusing to behave for 80 years now. Its wit is definitive, its plotting almost perfect, and its critique of modernity dazzling. The great theatrical adventurer Ralph Myers finally gives himself a directing gig and his task is almost ridiculously pleasurable: to direct Toby Schmitz in Private Lives.

Single tickets on sale Monday, 18th June 2012

Set Designer
Ralph Myers

Lighting Designer
Damien Cooper

Composer and Sound Designer
Stefan Gregory

Previews / 30-Down
8pm Saturday 29 September
5pm Sunday 30 September

Opening Night
8pm Wednesday 3 October

Captioned Performance
2pm Saturday 20 October

Audio described performance for patrons with vision impairment
2pm Saturday 27 October

Sunday Forum
3pm Sunday 4 November

Unwaged Performance
2pm Thursday 8 November

Wednesday Matinee
2pm Wednesday 31 October

Performance Times
6.30pm Tuesday
8pm Wednesday - Friday
2pm & 8pm Saturday
5pm Sunday

Ticket Prices
Full price $62
Seniors (excluding Fri/Sat evenings) $52
Industry or Groups of 10+ $52
Concession $42
Previews $42
Student Rush $29

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