Royal Exchange, ManchesterNoël Coward's 1930 play is not quite the sleek comedy that it appears. Of course it is very funny, in its brittle, spiky way, as the characters hurl witty dialogue at each other while parading around in dinner jackets and exquisite frocks. But for all the play's champagne effervescence, its stylish swagger and cut-glass vowels, the play's central relationship " between Amanda and Elyot, u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM on March 8, 2011