Further Tour Dates For Private Lives Starring Nigel Havers & Patricia Hodge

FURTHER DATES ADDED FOR

THE NIGEL HAVERS THEATRE COMPANY’S

INAUGURAL PRODUCTION OF

NOEL COWARD’S CLASSIC COMEDY

PRIVATE LIVES

STARRING PATRICIA HODGE & NIGEL HAVERS

NOW TOURING THROUGH TO 23 APRIL 2022

Following breaking box office records in Bath, Richmond, Chichester and Cambridge, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Moss Empires are delighted to announce further tour dates for The Nigel Havers Theatre Company production of Noel Coward’s gloriously entertaining PRIVATE LIVES.  This will be the inaugural show for The Nigel Havers Theatre Company, which will be touring the country with a wonderful line-up of theatrical gems.  The UK Tour of PRIVATE LIVES will begin at Theatre Royal Bath on 28 October 2021 and go through to 23 April 2022, finishing at the Theatre Royal Nottingham.

The production stars Olivier Award-winning Patricia Hodge, one of the country’s most loved actresses, as Amanda and Nigel Havers, ever suave and thoroughly charming, as Elyot, the role taken by Noël Coward himself in the original production in 1930.  Astonishingly, it is the first time Nigel Havers has appeared in a Coward play on stage.  Dugald Bruce-Lockhart plays Victor, Natalie Walter Sibyl and Aïcha Kossoko Louise.

Coward’s dazzling comic masterpiece is both a scintillatingly witty and scathingly vitriolic study of the rich and reckless in love.  Elyot and Amanda, who were once married, find themselves in adjoining rooms in the same hotel on the French coast, both on honeymoon with their new partners. Their initial horror quickly evaporates and soon they’re sharing cocktails and a romantic serenade. 

Patricia Hodge’s many theatre credits include A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios), Copenhagen (Chichester Festival Theatre), Travels With My Aunt (Minerva, Chichester), Relative Values (Harold Pinter), Calendar Girls (Noel Coward Theatre), The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket), His Dark Materials (National), Noises Off (National), Money (National, for which she won the Olivier for Best Supporting Actress) and A Little Night Music (National).  Her recent television credits include Ursula Thorpe in A Very English Scandal (BBC), Mrs Pelham in Downton Abbey (ITV) and Penny in Miranda (BBC).

Nigel Havers’s television credits include Roger in Finding Alice (ITV) and General Ransom in All Creatures Great & Small (Channel 5).  Other recent television credits include Lewis Archer in Coronation Street (Granada), Stanley Keen in Benidorm (ITV) and Lord Hepworth in Downton Abbey (ITV).  Theatre includes Serge in the UK Tour and West End productions of Art, Algernon Moncrieff in the UK Tour of The Importance of Being Earnest and Maxim de Wynter in the UK Tour of Rebecca.  His film credits include playing David Niven in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Hofstadter in Paradise Lost, Dr Rawlins in Empire of the Sun and Lord Andrew Lindsay in Chariots of Fire.

Dugald Bruce-Lockhart most recently appeared as Michael Gove in The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at Park Theatre.  He has also played David Cameron in The Three Lions (St James Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), for which he was nominated for Best Actor in The Stage Awards.  Other theatre credits include Bill Austin in Mamma Mia! (Novello), David Hart in Wonderland (Hampstead), Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (UK Tour) and, for Ed Hall’s Propeller Theatre Company, he has played the title role in Henry V, Antipholus of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors and Ratcliffe in Richard III.

Natalie Walter’s most recent theatre credits include Pack of Lies (Menier Chocolate Factory), Jerusalem (Watermill Theatre), Smash (Menier Chocolate Factory), 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Bush), 39 Steps (Criterion), Hay Fever (Chichester Festival Theatre) and, for the RSC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love’s Labour’s Lost.  Natalie was a regular performer in the CBBC series Horrible Histories.

Aïcha Kossoko’s most recent theatre credits include playing Alia Aminu in Josie Rourke’s production of The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse, Antony & Cleopatra at Chichester Festival Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse, The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Welcome To Thebes and The Observer at the National Theatre and La Dispute at the Abbey Theatre Dublin.  Recent films include The Fever and Claude Chabrol’s La comédie du pouvoir.  Television credits include SkinsIn DeepCoronation StreetCasualtyEastEnders and Kingmakers. She played Lady Detective and BBC Radio 4’s dramatization of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency.

PRIVATE LIVES will be directed by Christopher Luscombe, with set and costume designs by Simon Higlett, lighting design by Mark Jonathan, music by Nigel Hess, sound design by Jeremy Dunn, fight direction by Malcolm Ranson and casting by Sarah Bird.

The Nigel Havers Theatre Company’s PRIVATE LIVES is produced by Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Moss Empires.

Facebook:  nigelhaverstheatrecompany

Twitter:  nigelhaversco

TOUR SCHEDULE

2021

Theatre Royal Bath

28 October – 6 November

01225 448844

theatreroyal.org.uk

Richmond Theatre

9 – 13 November

0844 871 7651*

atgtickets.com/Richmond

Chichester Festival Theatre

16 – 20 November

01243 781312

cft.org.uk

Cambridge Arts Theatre

22 – 27 November

01223 503333

cambridgeartstheatre.com

2022

Canterbury Marlowe Theatre

17 – 22 January

01227 787787

marlowetheatre.com

Hall for Cornwall

25 – 29 January

01872 262466

hallforcornwall.co.uk 

Cheltenham Everyman Theatre

1 – 5 February

01242 572 573 

everymantheatre.org.uk

Torquay Princess

8 – 12 February

0844 871 7615*

atgtickets.com/princess-theatre-torquay

The Lowry

14 – 19 February

0343 208 6000

thelowry.com

Sheffield Lyceum

21 – 26 February

0114 249 6000

sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

Oxford Playhouse

28 February – 5 March

01865 305305

oxfordplayhouse.com

Poole Lighthouse

14 – 19 March

01202 280000

lighthousepoole.co.uk

Guildford Yvonne Arnaud

21 – 26 March

01483 44 00 00

yvonne-arnaud.co.uk

Norwich Theatre Royal

28 March – 2 April

01603 630 000

norwichtheatre.org

Theatre Royal Brighton

11 – 16 April

0844 871 7615*

atgtickets.com/brighton

Nottingham Theatre Royal

18 – 23 April

0115 989 5555

trch.co.uk

Booking fees may apply. *Calls to 0844 numbers cost up to 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge.