Vaudeville, London"Let's blow trumpets and squeakers and enjoy the party as much as we can," says Elyot in Private Lives, written in 1930. "I'm tired of the noise you make with your shrill, boastful trumpeting," a character witheringly observes of the local Don Juan in this previously unproduced Noël Coward play from 1956. What is striking, despite the odd verbal echo, is how Coward, in the quarter-century that se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM on August 17, 2012