About Private Lives

LOVE AND CHAOS COLLIDE IN NOËL COWARD’S TIMELESS COMEDY

Amanda and Elyot are charming, rich, utterly reckless - and divorced. When they meet unexpectedly on the first night of their honeymoons with new partners, in the balmy moonlight of the French Riviera, old flames re-ignite, and impulsive love takes hold. But they divorced for a reason, and their fiery romance soon spirals into a chaotic riot of passionate desire, slanging matches and outrageous battles.

Set against a backdrop of 1930s glamour, Noël Coward’s Private Lives is a sparkling comedy of manners - hilarious, shocking, and a rollercoaster of emotions, filled with razor-sharp wit, sizzling chemistry, and timeless sophistication.

Cast

  • Jodie Cuaresma

    Louise

    Jodie trained in Drama with Physical Theatre at St Mary’s University and participated in the Wise Children Open Residency Training Programme.

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  • Ashley Gerlach

    Victor

    Theatre includes: Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse); Coriolanus; Hamlet; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time; Macbeth ; Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Patriots (Noel Coward Theatre); A Pissedmas Carol (Leicester Square Theatre ): Fever Pitch (Hope Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Theatre by the Lake); Hamlet (Shit Faced Shakespeare); Storylab (Tricycle/ Kiln Theatre); Heather (Bush Theatre/ UK tour/ Edinburgh Festival); Soho Young Playwrights (Soho Theatre); The Events (Gothenberg English Studio Theatre); You Forgot the Mince (Imagine If); All My Sons (Talawa UK tour); Home Theatre; Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Nutcracker, Text Generation, The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth (Unicorn Theatre); Alice in the Walled Garden (Sixteen Feet); Breaking Point (Acting Out Productions); Borderline Vultures (The Lowry/ Happystorm Theatre); 7 New Plays by Young Writers (Kids Company/ National Theatre Studio); Where the Flowers Grow, Naked Soldiers (Warehouse Theatre); Herons (Falling Leaves).

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  • Chirag Benedict Lobo

    Elyot

    Chirag trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on The Fishmongers Ben Travers Scholarship

    Theatre includes: Life of Pi (West End), The Circle (Orange Tree Theatre), Rope (Theatre Clwyd)

    Film includes: The Cycle of Love (Grain Media), Action Hero (Netflix)

    Short Film includes: Pakka (DPPLR)

    Television includes: Endeavour (ITV), Insiders (TVF)

    Audiobook includes: Deviants, Cat Fight (Penguin)

    He is also an Associate Artist at The Orange Tree Theatre

     

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  • Pepter Lunkuse

    Amanda

    Theatre includes: The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre), written by Flora Wilson Brown and directed by Harry Tennison. She reprised the role of ‘Poppy’ in Michael Frayn’s Noises Off (Haymarket Theatre), directed by Lindsay Posner, having previously performed in the Noises Off tour (Theatre Royal Bath) which concluded at the (Phoenix Theatre, London). She also played ‘Horatio’ opposite Freddie Fox in Tom Littler’s production of Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Our Lady of Kibeho (Northampton Rep and Theatre Royal Stratford East), Educating Rita (Vienna English Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Watford Palace), Holes (Nottingham Playhouse), Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Vertical Hour (The Park), King Lear and The Crucible (Royal Exchange), Antony and Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre), Twelfth Night (Iris Theatre/St Paul's Church).

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  • Sade Malone

    Sibyl

    Early in her training Sade was the recipient of the coveted BAFTA Scholarship (Naomie Harris was her nominated mentor).

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  • Imogen Khan

    Understudy

    Imogen trained at European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College.

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  • Peter Stone

    Understudy

    Peter is a Welsh actor based in Greater Manchester and trained at the University of Central Lancashire.

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Credits

  • Noël Coward

    Writer

  • Tanuja Amarasuriya

    Director

    Tanuja Amarasuriya is a director, dramaturg and occasional sound artist, working in theatre and related forms. 
    Winner of the 2024 RTST Sir Peter Hall Directors Award.

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  • Amy Jane Cook

    Set & Costumer Designer

    Theatre includes: Boys from the Blackstuff  (The National Theatre, Garrick Theatre, West End, Liverpool Royal Court) Jellyfish (National Theatre and the Bush) Tick Tick…Boom! (Theatr Clwyd) Ride at the Curve (Southwark Playhouse, Charing Cross and The Old Globe USA); There’s a Bear on my Chair  (The Queen Elizabeth Hall) The Children and Lava (Nottingham Playhouse); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross); The Swell (Orange Tree); Protest for Northern Stage and Fuel; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill, Newbury); Wolf Cub (Hampstead); All My Sons (The Queens); Baskerville (Colchester Mercury); The Season at Royal & Derngate, Northampton (New Wolsley, Ipswich); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Insignificance, Wave me Goodbye and To Dream Again  (Theatr Clywd); You Stupid Darkness (Plymouth Drum); Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace); The Funeral Director  (Southwark Playhouse); Our Blue Heaven and Never Lost At Home (New Wolsey, Ipswich); Not Talking at the Arcola; Constellation Street  (The Other Room) (2017 Wales Theatre Award for Best Design) and Insignificance (Langham Place, USA). 

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  • Jennifer Kay

    Movement and Intimacy Director

    Jenn is from Bolton and works across the country as a movement and intimacy director.

    Theatre includes: An Adventure and Around the World in 80 Days (The Octagon, Bolton), My Night with Reg (Green Carnation Theatre Company, The Lowry), Full English (Bent Architect, Kala Sangam, Bradford), Olivier nominated 10 Nights (The Bush/Tamasha/Graeae), Beryl (Oldham Coliseum), Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Children of the Night (Cast, Doncaster), and The Jungle Book (Theatre by the Lake). 
     

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  • Timothy X Atack

    Composer/Sound Designer

    Timothy X Atack is a writer and composer working in stage, screen, audio, and books. As a composer, musician and sound designer.

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  • Haruka Kuroda

    Fight & Intimacy Director

  • Chris Davey

    Lighting Designer

    Theater includes: Jane Eyre, Winter Hill, To Kill A Mockingbird, The BFG (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Richard III (Rose Kingston), A Song for Ella Grey (Northern Stage),A Good House (Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic); Death of England (Sohopl@ace); The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Sound of Music (Pitlochry Theatre); Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); And Then There Were None (National &International Tour); The Gifting (Leeds Year of Culture); Noah’s Flood (Slung Low/MIF); 42nd Street (Théatre du Chatêlet, Paris); Tarantino Live (Riverside Studios); Touching the Void (Bristol Old Vic/ Duke of York’s London/Tokyo); Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera/La Monnaie, Brussels); The Car Man, Lord of the Flies (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures/Royal Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells, national & international tours); Carlos Acosta Classical Farewell (Royal Albert Hall); The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre of Scotland);The Shawshank Redemption, Footloose, Twelve Angry Men, Dial M for Murder, High Society, Wonderful Town (national tours). 

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  • Polly Jerrold

    Casting Director