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Page 10 - Halton Hills This Week; Wednesday, April 21, 1993 ‘Private Lives should play to packed house j Capris Auto Glass NEW CAR FINANCING yy a CONTINUES... “Until April 30/93 NORTHEND GEE ww MILTON 878.4137 By John Sommer “Private Lives”, an “Intimate Comedy in Three Acts” by Noel Coward, was produced by the author for the first time at The and Victor Prynne by Laurence Olivier. The same cast opened “Private Lives” in New York on January 27, 1931, with the addition of Jill Esmond as Sybil Chase. In London Sybil had been Adrianne len. When “Private Lives” came out it was considered to be one of many fashionable plays produced every year for the delight of a big city audience. In the meantime, it has become the quintessential play of the ‘30’s, in the way Wild’s play ° “The Importance of Being Ernest” became the quintessential play of the ‘90’s, a generation before Noel Coward. “Private Lives” is a comedy of manners and a deserved indictment of a particular class of people. If you grew up in the 30’s and see “Private Lives” now, you will be remembering smart people just like 354 Guelph St, Unit 27, Phoenix Theatre in London, Elyot and Amanda, who, in order to England, on September 8,.1930. preserve their privileges, threw in Georgetown, Ont. original cast was a sterling one. their lot with the likes of Mussolini Elyot Chase was played by Noel - and Hitler and Franco. (41 6) 873- 1 655 Coward himself, Amanda Prynne __ The First World War had turned was played by Gertrude Lawrence, them into cynical pleasure-seekers and they all talked like Elyot Chase: “Let’s be superficial and pity the poor philosophers. Let’s blow trum- pets and squeakers, and enjoy the party as much as we can, like very small, quite idiotic school children. Let’s savor the delight of the moment. Come and kiss me darling, before your body rots, and worms pop in and out of your eye sockets.” Are Elyot and Amanda likable? Not really. Theirs, and others like theirs, egotism destroyed Europe and millions of people. But, as depicted by Noel Coward, they are funny in a wickedly monstrous way. And they are historical types now, just. as Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen and all the others from Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Former spouses Elyot (Eric Witvoet) and Amanda (Terri Reid) on their former relationship in the Georgetown Little Theatre production of Private Lives current- ly playing at the John Elliott Theatre. exchange barbed remarks during a scene photo by Simon Wilson/HHTW types for us. In view of all the above, it is emi- nently right that the Georgetown Little Theatre production of “Private Lives” at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown has been given the look of about 1929. The two sets embody the spirit of fashions the men and women are The director, Vesta Jorgensen, ‘has done an absolutely splendid job with the actors. I was skeptical whether Eric Wilvoet would be able to manage the enormously difficult role of Elyot Chase, a frivolous, Ernest” have become historical the late ‘20’s and so do the smart troubled, and menacing man, but he | Halton | £0) did wonderfully well. | Comunity, Labie 4 Terri Reid as Amanda Prynne | Televi: looks and acts the part of a willful, 1 992 Nordic beauty of her time (Unity. | Weekly Programme @ Schedule Mitord comes to rind, who. wane ep 23rd Germany and sat at the Fuehrer’s for the week of April 19th to April feet). 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