Noël Coward's 'Fallen Angels' at APT is fizzy fun

Lindsay Christians, The Cap Times

Jane and Julia, the high class heroines of Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” couldn’t pass a Bechdel test. Their sense of morality is as hazy as their vision after a fifth martini.

But they get Girl Code. Sisters before misters.

“We must make a vow,” Jane says, as the women kneel and clutch each other.

“However badly one or both of us behaves during the black and scarlet period before us — when it’s all over and died down, we can reinstate ourselves on the same concrete basis of friendship and intimacy without the slightest sacrificing of pride on either side.”

The delicious pleasure of anticipation, draped in satin and lubricated by Champagne, animates Coward’s 1925 comedy, running in the Hill Theatre at American Players Theatre through Oct. 3.

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