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Colin Currie performs live, author Catherine Lacey, the influence of Noel Coward

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The Private Life of Noel Coward

Noel Coward was a spy in 1938, working against the government's appeasement policy. He went undercover of being the great playwright around Scandinavia and Europe. Stephen Mangan and Rachel Boulden do very well as his ex-spies. They get roaringly drunk but then abandon their spouses for each other again. A real roller coaster - it's charming and alarming to this play.

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