Revels in Hand has staged Coward on a polo pitch and Shakespeare in a Hamptons beach house
Eleven people are looking on as a couple argue in bed on the 39th floor of the Shard tower in London. They are not shooting a porn film but indulging in the latest must-have for the wealthy: a private West End theatre production.
This week the £10,000-a-night Shangri-La suite of the Shard was transformed into a 1930s apartment for the setting of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, a cycle of one-act comic plays. Next week it could be Pinter in your living room, Shakespeare at your Hamptons summer house or even Wilde on the deck of your superyacht. If you have the money, production crews promise to transform any space into a theatre set and actors will create “the most intimate play you’ve ever seen”.
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