Fallen Angels By Noël Coward – Event Cinema

Fallen Angels comes to the Main Auditorium at Weymouth Pavilion on Tuesday 10 November, as part of the venue's event cinema programme. It's a filmed production of Noël Coward's comedy, so you get the full stage show on the big screen rather than a live performance in the room.

Coward wrote Fallen Angels as a champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners, and it caused a fair stir when it first premiered in 1925. The plot centres on two upper-class wives, both with their husbands away, who spend their time sharing toasts and talking about their pre-marital dalliances with the same man. He may be on his way back from France, and as the two women trade stories, old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface. It's a romp in the classic sense, staged by one of theatre's comedy masters.

This particular production is directed by Scott Ellis, and it carries a PG rating for mild sex references and innuendo—the sort of thing that would have been the shock of the piece back in the twenties, but sits comfortably in a modern comedy. The running time is one hour and fifty minutes, so it's a full evening's entertainment without stretching too far.

Tickets are £15, and the screening starts at 1pm on Tuesday 10 November in the Main Auditorium at Weymouth Pavilion.