Stage Play News: Matthew Macfadyen to star in Noel Coward's 'Private Lives'

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye sure is on a roll of reporting stage play news (as well as other news:  Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, and Carey Mulligan all featured in UK's Daily Mail column this week) of our favorite P&P Actors Actors. First, he reported about Rosamund Pike's (Enter Rosamund, returning to tragedy and Rosamund Pike to star in a stage production of Hedda Gabler) stage play, then, he broke the news first about Keira Knightley's making her West End Debut in “The Misanthrope” and how she's the hot ticket for her upcoming stage debut. He also mentioned about Rupert Friend's makes his own West End stage debut in The Little Dog Laughed. Now, he reports about our Mr. Darcy...err... Matthew Macfadyen doing a stage play as well.

Here's the MM mention in his new column/article this week (which he also and often mentions his other P&P co-stars such as Keira Knightley, which he love to talk about in his columns, and Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan)...

Kim Cattrell, who plays man-eating cougar Samantha Jones in Sex And The City, is thrilled that actor Matthew Macfadyen is to be the new man in her life - on stage, that is.

The pair will star in Noel Coward's Private Lives, directed by Richard Eyre, with performances at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand for a ten-week season from February 24. The official first night is March 3.

'I think it's a great choice,' said Kim, who is on location in Morocco shooting Sex And The City 2.

Private Lives will begin 'outta town' at the Theatre Royal, Bath, from February 10 until February 20, and then head straight into the West End.


Read more here!

In related MM stage play news, from London Theatre ....

 Private Lives with Kim Catrrall & Matthew Macfadyen

Noel Coward's Private Lives, will open at the Vaudeville THeatre 3 March 2010, following previews from 24 Feb - running to 1 May 2010.
Directed by Richard Eyre, the cast includes Kim Cattrall (Amanda), Matthew Macfadyen (Elyot). It is produced by Duncan C Weldon / Sonia Friedman Productions.

Kim Cattrall is best known for her portrayal of 'Samantha Jones' in TV's "SEx and the City". London stage credits includes "Whose Life is It Anyway?" at the Donmar Warehouse in 2005 and "Cryptogram" at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006.

Matthew Macfadyen is best-known for his role as Tom Quinn in the BBC series Spooks. His London stage credits include "The Pain and the Itch" at the Royal Court in 2005 and "Henry IV Part 1 & 2" at the Olivier v, NT also in 2005.

Glamorous, rich and reckless, Elyot and Amanda have been divorced from each other for five years. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When by chance they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. Without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of what drove them apart in the first place, they hurl themselves headlong into love and lust…

Also, in the same Daily Mail article above, read more about Moliery's misery loves company - especially Keira's (see first promo/publicity photo of Keira and co-star Damian Lewis to your left...click it to enlarge! photo
source: Baz Bamigboye of Uk's The Daily Mail ) and Carey Mulligan - the tee-total toast of the town.

So, here we have a rundown of the following P&P actors doing stage plays starting December 2009 to March 2010...

• Keira Knightley - The Misanthrope - December 7th (preview night)/December 17th (opening night)
• Rupert Friend - The Little Dog Laughed - January 8th, 2010 (preview night)/January 20th (opening night) and ends April 10th, 2010.
  
• Rosamund Pike - Hedda Gabler - February 22nd, 2010 (for two weeks)
• Matthew Macfadyen - Private Lives - February 24th, 2010 (preview)/March 3rd (first night) for a ten-week season.