‘SUPERFICIAL, flighty, witty and effervescent,” is how director, Michael Cabot, of London Classic Theatre, always regarded the work of Noel Coward whose play, Private Lives, is at Cork’s Everyman.

Often regarded as a frivolous writer of entertainment, the British playwright Joe Orton had a seriousness and a depth that can sometimes be undervalued, says Michael Cabot of London Classic Theatre.

THE privileged elite of London publishing, in the late 1960s and ’70s, are the backdrop to the late Harold Pinter’s play, Betrayal.

Laoisha O’Callaghan has given an Irish twist to one of Wilde’s great English characters, writes Colette Sheridan