WESSEX Actors are back in Dorset with the Noel Coward play Private Lives.
Following the success of The Importance of Being Earnest last year, Wessex Actors are returning to the area next month to perform the 1930 comedy of manners.
The roles in this play have also attracted many other famous actors such as Alan Rickman, John Gielgud, Lawrence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
Written by Noel Coward in four days, while he was convalescing from flu during a tour in Asia, this play was criticised by Lord Chamberlain as being far too risqué.
Despite Coward being told the love scene was to be done tastefully, it opened in the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1930 and has since become a classic.
You can see the performance at Christchurch Regent Centre on July 11 and Upton Country House on July 13 & 20.
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