Tickets On Sale For Cinema Release Of PRIVATE LIVES, Feb 2014

Tickets go on sale today for the second production to be distributed as part of CinemaLive and Digital Theatre's West End Theatre Series, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor, captured at London's Gielgud Theatre.

In April Digital Theatre and CinemaLive announced their partnership to distribute a series of acclaimed productions, captured live in London's West End, to cinemas around the world. In October, the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Merrily We Roll Along became the first production in the West End Theatre Series.

Following unanimous critical acclaim and a sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Noël Coward's dazzling and irresistible comedy blazed across the West End stage at the Gielgud Theatre, where it played a limited season from 22 June to 21 September 2013, proving Noël Coward still has the power to thrill, provoke and delight.

Elyot Chase (Toby Stephens) and Amanda Prynne (Anna Chancellor) are glamorous, rich, reckless... and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past.

Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are joined in the cast by Anthony Calf as Victor Prynne, Anna-Louise Plowman as Sibyl Chase and Sue Kelvin as Louise. Noël Coward's Private Lives has design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Paul Groothuis and music by Matthew Scott.

The West End Theatre Series marks the first time that productions from the West End's leading commercial theatre producers are available in High Definition as a global cinema series. Other countries taking part in the series include the USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, Russia and Brazil.

Robert Delamere, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Theatre said: "To be working once again with CinemaLive in bringing a second hit West End show to cinemas around the world is thrilling. Chichester Festival Theatre's production of NoëlCoward's classic comedy is outstanding, and Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor's superb performances have been rightly lauded. Following the huge success of the first production in our West End Theatre Series, Maria Friedman's award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, we look forward to further expanding the series, and extending the reach of the very best of British theatre to a global audience."

Noël Coward's plays include Hay Fever, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit. His screenwriting credits include In Which We Serve (which he also co-directed) and Brief Encounter.

Noël Coward's Private Lives was produced in the West End by CFT Enterprises, Old Vic Productions, Duncan C. Weldon and APT Productions.

Noël Coward's Private Lives will screened in select UK cinemas from 6th February 2014. Tickets are now on sale. For more information, ticketing and participating cinemas visit www.cinemalive.com

About CinemaLive

CinemaLive is one of the world's leading producers and distributors of premium Event Cinema for cinemas and big screen venues worldwide. Parent company The Shooting Star Picture Company has been producing high quality concerts and events for over 20 years and has a reputation for quality and global excellence. With offices in the UK and Australia, the CinemaLive subsidiary has quickly become one of the fastest growing theatrical distributors since establishing in 2008. It delivers the best music, cultural and family entertainment via satellite and hard drive to over 70 countries around the world.

About Digital Theatre

Digital Theatre works in partnership with Britain's leading theatre companies to capture live performance authentically onscreen from multiple camera angles and makes productions available to a worldwide audience in high definition. Visit www.digitaltheatre.com.

Recent Digital Theatre releases include the 2013 Olivier Award-winning revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, the sell-out 2011 West End production of All My Sons and Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

Other productions include: The Almeida Theatre's production of King Lear starring Jonathan Pryce, Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's Olivier Award-winningInto the Woods, the multi award-winning A Doll's House starring Hattie Morahan for the Young Vic, the West End revival of Jonathan Harvey's seminal Beautiful Thing and Frantic Assembly and Abi Morgan's Lovesong.

For more information, ticketing and participating cinemas www.cinemalive.com

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