"I've always been sophisticated," says Amanda Prynne, the heroine of Noel Coward's beloved Private Lives. Generations of theater-goers agree with her " they follow the on-again, off-again romance of Amanda and Elyot Chase, her one-time husband, with a mixture of delight and envy. I bet the playwright also fell in love, Pygmalion style, with his characters " he gave them such dazzling lives, such witty repartee!
