Kim Cattrall To Tread The Boards Again At The Old Vic

[Phantom of London]

Kim Cattrall, who long ago ended her run as sex-hungry tigress Samantha Jones in Sex And The City, will play an even more predatory sexual animal when she makes her debut at the Old Vic.
The actress will star in Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird Of Youth as faded movie star Alexandra del Lago — she also likes to be called Princess Kosmonopolis, though if she was born with a silver spoon it was never in her mouth.
The play will be part of Kevin Spacey’s final season as artistic director at the Old Vic. During his tenure, Spacey has turned the theatre south of the Thames into a powerhouse venue.
Cattrall and director Marianne Elliott have been trying to get the play staged for some time but both have been busy. Now rehearsals are set for April, with performances due to begin at the Old Vic in June.
Ms Elliott is involved with the National Theatre’s War Horse, which she co-directed with Tom Morris. It has become an international hit and has a whopping £5?million advance at the New London Theatre.
The Princess in Sweet Bird Of Youth, who has outlived her own legend, accompanies her gigolo — the repugnant Chance Wayne — when he returns to his home town in Florida.
Once there, she holes up in a vulgar pink hotel suite, where she demands Chance satisfy her voracious appetite for sex — something she thinks will stop her ageing.
It’s a great role and Elliott, with her sublime but exacting directorial skills, will get the best out of Cattrall, who has found a home in the theatre these past few years having played in Private Lives and recently completed a run in Antony And Cleopatra at Chichester. Producers at the Old Vic are hoping an American leading man can be found to play Chance.


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[henrikegerman]

"she also likes to be called Princess Kosmonopolis, though if she was born with a silver spoon it was never in her mouth."

I'm sure there must be a cogent witty conceit in this, but hell if I can find it.