Noel Coward's Private Lives braves elemental weather at the Minack

In true Noel Coward style the evening audience were entertained before and during the performance with a range Noel Coward songs befitting this production of Private Lives...

at the Minack, though the weather gods were obviously not smiling on the cast, stage or audience as the evening closed in and low cloud turned to a light drizzle...

then something a little more heavy...

to the strains of "Why must the show go on?" as the hardy actors braved out the deluge