Camp is an inescapable esthetic at this moment

“As New Yorker critic John Lahr called Private Lives, reviewing a 2011 New York City production starring Paul Gross and Kim Cattrall, it is “a plotless play about purposeless people” — a compliment that cements the play as a “high-camp masterpiece” and Coward as definitive camp icon.

At Stratford, Carey Perloff’s production recognizes the particular appeal of a piece of high-camp theatre, pairing the equally delightful duo of Lucy Peacock and Geraint Wyn Davies…”