Kim Cattrall, well-known for her role in Sex and the City as Samantha Jones has returned to London to star with Matthew Macfadyen in Noel Coward’s comedy, Private Lives.
They play Amanda and Elyot, respectively, a divorced couple who meet again five years after divorcing and when both are on their honeymoons with new spouses. The spark is rekindled in the south of France, thanks to adjoining hotel balconies and immediately their feelings for one another are rekindled, without a care for their new partners or what drove them apart in the first place.
Cattrall was born in Liverpool and has expressed her love of London theatre and appared in Whose Life is it Anyway? And also started in David Mamet’s The Cryptogram at the Donmar in 2006.
Matthew Macfadyen is remember for his role as Tom Quinn in the BBC series Spooks. He also appeared on the London stage in The Pain and the Itch and Henry IV Part 1&2.
Directed by Richard Eyre, this Noel Coward comedy, opened last night at the Vaudeville Theatre.
