Design For Living
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1979
- 1 episode
Noël Coward's play about Gilda and her attempts to share her love with two men while marrying a third. Also features Rula Lenska, Clive Arrindell, John Steiner, John Bluthal, Dandy Nichols and more.
Press clippings
A desperately nervous piece about three desperately clever people in love, it is not much of a play, principally because it is desperately short of good lines. But given lashings of style it could still be brought off. Unfortunately in this production most of the style was confined to the costumes, decor and props.
Clive James, The Observer, 13th May 1979Coward, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine in black pyjamas and silver evening dress are gracefully entwined on what Coward prudently ordered should be an enormous sofa. In this production this twining is a tangled knot, writing. It is like looking into a whirlpool. The end, as Coward said, is what you choose to make it. The BBC made it black or twentieth-century blue.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 7th May 1979