Kendal Spends Happy Days with Busy Hall???
Date: 16 April 2003
He may be in his 70s, but rather than slowing down director
Peter Hall seems to be actually speeding up his output.
Felicity Kendal has now been tipped to star as Winnie in Hall's planned autumn West End revival of Samuel Beckett's 1961 modern classic
Happy Days. That's in addition to: this month's pre-West End tour of Feydeau farce
Where There's a Will, with Elaine Paige and David Warner; next month's post-West End tour of
Mrs Warren's Profession, with Twiggy replacing Brenda Blethyn in the title role; Colin Teevan's English-language version of Guiseppe Manfridi's Oedipal black comedy
The Cuckoos at the Barbican in June; a summer repertory season for revivals of Harold Pinter's
Betrayal, Noel Coward's
Design for Living, DH Lawrence's
The Fight for Barbara and Shakespeare's
As You Like It at Bath's Theatre Royal (as well as possible tours and transfers); and, come the autumn, an expected London production of Tennessee Williams' rarely performed
Summer and Smoke (See
The Goss, 3 Dec 2002). In other Hall-related developments, it seems the director has recently made up with his one-time constant backer, impresario
Bill Kenwright. The two famously - and acrimoniously - split in 1998 after a seven-year partnership (See
News, 28 Oct 2002), but are now said to be discussing future projects.
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