Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. The leading roles have attracted a wide range of actors; among those who have succeeded Coward as Elyot are Richard Burton, Alan Rickman and Matthew Macfadyen, and successors to Lawrence as Amanda have included Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Kim Cattrall, Penelope Keith and Lindsay Duncan.

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