Noel Coward wrote Private Lives in 1930 while convalescing from influenza. Directed by Coward, it premiered at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh in August 1930 and toured the UK before opening at the Phoenix Theatre in London in September of the same year. This first production featured Noel Coward himself and Gertrude Lawrence as the divorced couple, Elyot and Amanda, with Laurence Olivier and Adrienne Allen as Victor and Sybil, respectively. It transferred to Broadway in January 1931, with Coward, Oliver and Lawrence reprising their roles. However the play nearly never made it to the stage as
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