Private Lives

25 January — 8 March 2014

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We kick off the year with Noël Coward’s best-known comedy – as effervescent as freshly poured champagne on a hot summer’s night.

Elyot and Sybil are honeymooning in France and life couldn’t be more perfect. In the adjoining hotel room Amanda and Victor are delighting in their own postnuptial bliss. The fact that Elyot and Amanda were once married to each other isn’t such a big deal. That is, until the two couples meet and honeymoon rapture comes to a grinding halt.

Coward’s plot-perfect marital farce is sparklingly witty and wickedly vicious. MTC Associate Artistic Director Sam Strong’s daring new production, featuring musical theatre star Lucy Durack together with Leon Ford, Julie Forsyth, Nadine Garner and John Leary promises to be a highlight of 2014.

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Artwork for Lucy Durack

Lucy Durack

Sybil Chase

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Leon Ford

Elyot Chase

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Julie Forsyth

Louise

Artwork for Nadine Garner

Nadine Garner

Amanda Prynne

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John Leary

Victor Prynne

John Leary is a graduate of Theatre Nepean and a proud member of MEAA. Theatre credits include Shakespeare in Love, North By Northwest, Private Lives, His Girl Friday and Realism (Melbourne Theatre Company); All My Sons, White Guard, Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar (Sydney Theatre Company); Peter Pan, The Business, The Book of Everything, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Marriage of Figaro and Cloudstreet (Belvoir); The Dragon and White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Malthouse Theatre); Just Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare). John also co-wrote and performed in the plays The Suitors and Vital Organs. Television credits include The Newsreader, Five Bedrooms, Glitch, Upright, The Letdown, True Story with Hamish and Andy, Get Krack!n, Upper Middle BoganLaid, Offspring, Tough Nuts, Woodley, All Saints. His US television credits include The Good Place and No Activity. Selected film credits include Pirates of the Caribbean V, Oddball, Red Dog, Where the Wild Things Are and the Tropfest winning short Lemonade Stand.

Current as of March 2023.

Artwork for Sam Strong

Sam Strong

Artwork for Tracy Grant Lord

Tracy Grant Lord

Artwork for Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson

Artwork for Mathew Frank

Mathew Frank

Artwork for Scott Witt

Scott Witt

Artwork for Andrew Hallsworth

Andrew Hallsworth

Artwork for Leith McPherson

Leith McPherson

Artwork for Tanya Dickson

Tanya Dickson