Olivier Award winner Janie Dee and her husband, Rupert Wickham, will star in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, to run October 7-22 at Nottingham Playhouse. Giles Croft will direct the production, which will be designed by Dawn Allsopp and have lighting by Alexandra Stafford.
The play centers on what happens when the divorced couple Eloyt (Wickham) and Amanda (Dee) meet unexpectedly while honeymooning with their respective new spouses. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
Dee received an Olivier Award for her performance in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential, a performance she reprised in New York. Among her other stage credits are All’s Well That Ends Well, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Design for Living, Old Times, The Apple Cart, House and Garden, and Woman in Mind.
Wickham’s theater credits include Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, The Importance of Being Earnest and Quartermaine’s Terms. Among his film and television credits are Band of Brothers, The Bourne Identity, The Brylcreem Boys, and Waking The Dead.
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