by Noel Coward
High society couple, Amanda and Elyot, were married for three years, and their volatile relationship ended in divorce. Two years later, they discover that they are at the same hotel on their respective honeymoons with their new spouses, Victor and Sybil. The two exes quickly learn they still have an attraction for each other.
For true love, they disregard the cost to their reputations and the feelings of their spouses and sneak out the door and run off together.
Rekindled love, however, is no match for the fireworks of their past relationship, as verbal jousting and comedic manipulation begins to look very much like a love-hate relationship that couldn’t possibly survive – that’s when their new mates track them down.
Noel Coward’s play about the hypocrisies and pretensions of manners, social conventions and romance is considered one of the enduring successes of modern comedic theatre and has remained a standard of repertory and non-profit companies for well over half a century.
