PJC Drama Department to present “Private Lives”

Published or Revised November 05, 2009

The Drama Department at Paris Junior College will present its annual Homecoming drama, [i]Private Lives[/i] by Noel Coward, on Nov. 6, 7, 8, 13 and 14. Show times are at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7, 13 and 14, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8. [i]Private Lives[/i] is a 1930 comedy of manners and focuses on a divorced couple that discover they are honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel. The play premiered on Aug. 18, 1930, at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. [i]Private Lives[/i] is considered one of the enduring successes of modern comedic theatre. Sir Noel Coward entertained theatergoers for over half a century with what he called his “talent to amuse” – as an actor, playwright, director, composer and singer. He is best known for the witty sophisticated comedies of manners written from the 1920s through the early 1940s, which delighted and sometimes shocked audiences with their satiric portrayals of the English leisured classes between the wars. In 1970 Noel Coward was honored by the rank of Knight to become Sir Noel Coward. Only three short years later Sir Noel Coward joined the ranks of William Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Yeats and many others when he passed away at his home in Jamaica in 1973. Tickets are $5 for the general public and are free to PJC students with ID. For more information, call 903-782-0327.