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Noël Coward’s hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Brace yourself and prepare to laugh at what director Sanchez calls a “saucy, brassy, and rude” battle of equals that’s “as much about fighting as it is making love.”
SF/Arts Curator Insight
In Noël Coward’s effervescent marital comedy “Private Lives,” a divorced couple inadvertently meet up, each on their respective honeymoons—in adjacent rooms in a hotel in France. Director KJ Sanchez transposes the 1930s setting to Argentina and Uruguay, so tango dancing is involved. American Conservatory Theater artistic director Pam McKinnon has written that classics like this “reveal something new each time."
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
American Conservatory Theater - ACT
Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness.
Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness.