Kim Cattrall, Rhys Ifans and Penelope Wilton to Star in Donmar Season
Kim Cattrall, Rhys Ifans and Penelope Wilton will join the already announced Ian McDiarmid in the upcoming autumn and winter season at London's Donmar Warehouse.
Cattrall returns to the London stage to star in Josie Rourke's new production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram. The actress, best known for her starring role as Samantha in the long-running TV series Sex and the City, made her West End debut in Peter Hall's revival of Brian Clark's Whose Life is it Anyway? at the Comedy Theatre in January 2005. The Cryptogram is an elliptical play that charts the breakdown of a family. It was originally seen in the West End at the New Ambassadors Theatre in 1994, when Lindsay Duncan starred in the role of Donny, that Cattrall now inherits. The drama will open on October 17 following previews from October 12. It runs to November 25.
Wilton joins McDiarmid in Grandage's revival of Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, to play Ella Rentheim. Opening on February 20 following previews from February 15, Ibsen's penultimate play is presented in a new version by David Eldridge. Wilton was last seen on the London stage in The House of Bernarda Alba last year at the National's Lyttelton, though her voice can also be heard in Samuel Beckett's short play Eh Joe, running at the Duke of York's Theatre to July 15. She last appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in October 2001. John Gabriel Borkman runs to April 14.
