Fighting For Coward

From a very short review of Private Lives:

If George Bernard Shaw and Mean Girls’ Regina George had a love child, he would look a lot like Noël Coward, a catty bitch hidden behind dry intellectual wit. [...] Private Lives is not for everybody—the dialogue feels like an old Hollywood romance—but it's enjoyable despite the exaggerated scenario and characters.

First, Coward is his own animal, and one that doesn't have much to do with Shaw. Or Mean Girls, for that matter.

Second, Private Lives is probably Coward's best-known and most-revived work. That's because it's got two great opportunities for leads and sparkling dialogue. In fact, the play has very little to recommend it but dialogue--the plot is nothing. I'm not a huge Coward fan, but if what the critics saw sounded like a Hollywood romance, then either it's not much of a production or I need to rewatch those old movies since they're better than I remember.