Noël Coward's Easy Virtue

About the show

Noël Coward’s glitteringly risqué comedy Easy Virtue is brought back to life by renowned director Trevor Nunn, who knows The Arts Theatre well having directed plays here while he was a Cambridge student.

Written in 1924, Coward introduces us to Colonel and Mrs Whittaker, shocked and scandalised as they learn that their son, John, has, without any consultation, got married in the South of France. Even worse, he is soon to arrive at their country estate with his new bride, an American divorcée, Larita. She proves to be glamorous, witty, sophisticated and very much a modern woman ... everything that Mrs Whittaker is not.

Larita’s cosmopolitan lifestyle causes tensions to rise and in the process, hidden truths are revealed.

Brimming with Coward’s mischievous wit, the play is not only dazzlingly witty, but a biting critique of society, so clearly ahead of its time.