Private Lives - further casting announced
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
SIMON Paisley Day (as Victor) and Lisa Dillon (Sybil) will join Kim Cattrall and Matthew MacFadyen in Private Lives, which opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on March 3, 2010 (previews from February 24).
Paisley Day’s previous theatre credits include Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios), Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe) and The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre).
Dillon’s theatre credits include Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre); Present Laughter and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre); Period of Adjustment, Hedda Gabler and When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida Theatre); Othello (Royal Shakespeare Company); and The Master Builder (Albery Theatre) for which she won the Ian Charleson Award and the Critics’ Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award.
On screen she has appeared in Bright Young Things (film); the award-winning Cranford (as Mary Smith), Hawking and Cambridge Spies (all for BBC TV).
Previously Posted: Kim Cattrall will star alongside Matthew MacFadyen in Richard Eyre’s revival of Noel Coward’s four-hander Private Lives, which runs at the Vaudeville Theatre for a limited ten week season – from March 3 (previews from February 24) to May 1, 2010.
Five years after their divorce, Amanda (Cattrall) and Elyot (MacFadyen) find themselves honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel in the South of France. The chance meeting rekindles their insatiable feelings for each other and, without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of why their marriage failed, they embark on an affair fuelled by love and lust.
Cattrall is probably best known for her role as Samantha in the popular TV series Sex and the City, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
She has, however, appeared on stage in America in A View From the Bridge, Three Sisters, Miss Julie, The Misanthrope and the National Theatre’s production of Wild Honey. In 2005, she made her West End debut in Peter Hall’s revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway? and a year later starred as Donny in Cryptogram, Mamet’s elliptical 1995 three-hander about the end of childhood (Donmar Warehouse).
Although MacFadyen is best known for his screen roles – as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (film); Tom Quinn in Spooks and Arthur Clennam in Little Dorrit (TV) – he has appeared on stage in Henry IV (National Theatre) and The Pain and the Itch (Royal Court Theatre). He will shortly be seen as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Ridley Scott’s new film Robin Hood.
Artistic Director of the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997, Richard Eyre‘s more recent credits include The Last Cigarette (Trafalgar Studios and Chichester Festival Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Almeida Theatre) and Mary Poppins (West End and Broadway). His films include Iris, Notes on a Scandal and Stage Beauty.
Prior to its West End dates, Private Lives will run for two weeks (February 10 to February 20) at the Theatre Royal Bath.
The Rise and Fall of little Voice continues at the Vaudeville Theatre until January 30, 2010.
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