Kim Cattrall interview for the Guardian

An article in the Guardian has a backstage interview with Kim Cattrall as she prepares to get ready for her role in Private Lives. An excerpt:

...and she's now working in this Coward revival with Matthew Macfadyen, directed by Richard Eyre. And she gets, she burbles excitedly, to sing. "It's a good time to be an actress over 40, actually. A lot of us are now able to just… mix it up, take the films, or the plays, that we really want, and what's going on in the West End here is quite extraordinary.

Read the full interview HERE.

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A Housewife's Review of Private Lives

Private LivesA 21st Century Housewife has also blogged about Private Lives, which you can read HERE.

Here are some choice comments:

"Everyone was clearly enjoying themselves and at one point they had us all nearly crying with laughter."

"This new production at The Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand in London stars Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen. They make a fantastic Elyot and Amanda; their comedic timing is absolutely wonderful. The supporting cast (Lisa Dillon, Simon Paisley Day and Caroline Lena Olsson) are equally brilliant."

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A Clowns Review of Private Lives

This Clown's blog has posted a review of Private Lives and had some very complimentary comments to make about the show and all the actors.  Make sure to read the whole review HERE.

Here's what he had to say about Matthew Macfadyen:

"MacFadyen matched her though, with his waspish delivery of some great zingers, some nifty piano-playing and unafraid to show some vulnerability beneath the suave, disaffected, handsome exterior. And together they [Matthew and Kim Cattrall] display great chemistry, turning on a dime from pure comedy to impassioned anger, from sexual energy to gentle crooning over the piano, I totally bought them as a couple who couldn't live without each other, yet drove each other up the wall."

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Private Lives news round-up

There have been several articles in the news about the director of Private Lives, Richard Eyre, and also articles in preparation for Press Night on 3 March.  Until the official reviews are released, here are some current articles.

Private Lives: hit me baby, one more time (Telegraph interview with Richard Eyre)

What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips (Guardian)

Culture clinic: Richard Eyre (Telegraph)

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Baz Bamigboye confirms more details about "Any Human Heart"

Matthew Macfadyen had already confirmed that he would be in Channel 4's four part TV series based on William Boyd's "Any Human Heart".  Now Baz is giving us further details:

Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Broadbent will play the ubiquitous Logan Mountstuart in a lavish four-part Channel 4 drama that zooms in on pivotal moments of the last century.

Mountstuart is the central character of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart. Although fictional, he seems to have been a witness to history.

At one point, he finds himself in a 'bierkeller' in Munich and asks a thin, diminutive man in a blue suit with a neatly shaved moustache where the toilet is. Later Mountstuart learns that the funny little man was Adolf Hitler.

Logan keeps notes of all his encounters - he meets royalty, famous writers (including Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War and Ian Fleming in World War II). Boyd's novel took the form of Logan's journal entries, kept through the decades.

However, in adapting his book for C4, Boyd has had to introduce a lot of dialogue and bring his disparate elements together in a stunning screenplay.

An actor is being sought to play young Logan, after which Macfadyen and then Broadbent take over - though Broadbent appears throughout, looking back over our hero's long life.

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