Private Lives

by Noël Coward
Directed by Laura Gordon

While on honeymoons with their new spouses, having violently divorced years before, Amanda and Elyot discover each other sharing adjoining balconies in the same hotel. Well, one thing leads to another, and… sometimes the line between love and hate is so thin. In Noël Coward’s masterpiece, we witness two selfish, passionate, egotistical, madly in love people drive each other absolutely crazy. How can they possibly survive together? But more importantly, perhaps, how can they survive apart? With Coward’s searing wit, you’ll laugh until you cry while they scream until they kiss. And vice versa.

Private Lives stars Charles Pasternak as Elyot and Paige Lindsey White as Amanda.

PERFORMANCES:

• Friday, September 4 @ 2PM – preview
• Saturday, September 5 @ 7PM – opening
• Sunday, September 6 @ 2PM
• Saturday, September 12 @ 2PM
• Sunday, September 13 @ 7PM
• Thursday, September 17 @ 7PM – pre-show dramaturgy
• Saturday, September 19 @ 7PM
• Sunday, September 20 @ 2PM – all-ages matinee
• Wednesday, September 23 @ 7PM
• Friday, September 25 @ 7PM
• Saturday, September 26 @ 2PM – post-show talk-back
• Sunday, September 27 @ 7PM
• Wednesday, September 30 @ 7PM
• Friday, October 2 @ 7PM
• Saturday, October 3 @ 2PM
• Sunday, October 4 @ 2PM – closing

RUN TIME:

• 2 and 1/4 hours with one 20-minute intermission

TICKETS: 

• TBA
• Call the SCS box office at 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m

VENUE: 

• Santa Cruz Shakespeare main stage
  Audrey Stanley Grove in DeLaveaga Park
  501 Upper Park Road, Santa Cruz, CA