Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy play written by Noel Coward.  It covers a divorced couple, Elyot and Amanda, who inadvertently visit the same hotel in adjacent rooms for their respective honeymoons with new spouses. Despite a tumultuous past, they discover that they still love each other. Britain, where the play was first introduced, almost censored sections of the play for its graphic references to sex. The play was quickly made into a film (1931) and was adapted for multiple other media. The play is a commentary on the naive idealism of marriage and the insufficiency of the model of marriage to facilitate healthy and enduring relationships.