Despite weeks of my own personal excitement, Kim Cattrall did not disappoint on the stage. Her sparky theatrical partnership with Matthew Macfadyen in Noel Coward's play 'Private Lives' (1930) had the audience shaking with laughter in their plush velvet seats (especially my mother!) and cheering for more once the curtain dropped. Confidently catty, Cattrall sashays effortlessly around the Vaudeville Theatre set but despite her strength in Coward's seductively sensual role of Amanda, she has ventured from her celebrated character of (the beloved) Samantha Jones in tv series and film 'Sex and the City'. Her body is as graceful and toned as ever (which bodes well for all the enraged chasing she does with Macfadyen) but her range of tone in her voice expands to include not only the growls and shrieks of marital war but even stretches to a little light singing. The British accent was at first a surprise and occasionally left room for improvement but as Cattrall was born in Liverpool UK, not in America as most suspect, the audience can be just glad it wasn't a brusque Scouser bawl. Conclusively, a delicious delight of volatile affairs and firery feuds, in the words of Macfadyen 'Don't quibble Sybil,'- and get yourself tickets!
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