Present Laughter

I'm back home from my quick trip to New York, but while I was there I did have an opportunity to see the play Present Laughter with Kevin Kline. The play wasn't great, but Kevin Kline was great in it. Present Laughter didn't work for me because it came off as stale and dated. Noel Coward plays aren't really my thing either. The humor just didn't really translate for me, but Kevin Kline is such a gem that I was able to overlook a lot of the corny jokes and Katherine Hepburn-like pseudo-British accents in the play. I saw Kline in Ivanov years ago at the Lincoln Center and he was excellent. He's an actor's actor and seeing him again (even though the play was a disappointment) was still a treat.