Simon Paisley Day and Lisa Dillon are to join Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen in Noël Coward’s four-hander Private Lives, which is revived at the Vaudeville theatre from 24 February (press night 3 March).
The duo play the other halves of Elyot and Amanda, a divorced couple who have both just remarried and are honeymooning with their new spouses in the south of France, unaware that the other is also staying in the same hotel.
Dillon, who plays Sybil, was most recently seen at the Almeida theatre earlier this year in When The Rain Stops Falling, while her previous West End credits include Under The Blue Sky and The Master Builder. She has been seen on television as Mary Smith in BBC drama Cranford, Bright Young Things and Cambridge Spies.
Paisley Day (Victor) was last seen in the West End in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane at Trafalgar Studios in January this year and previously in Timon Of Athens at Shakespeare’s Globe and The 39 Steps at the Criterion theatre.
Private Lives, one of Coward’s most popular comedies, was last staged in London at the Hampstead theatre in January this year.
This new production, which plays at the Theatre Royal Bath prior to its West End premiere, comes to the Vaudeville theatre after The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, which ends its run on 30 January.
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