Flockhart Lines Up Christie Before House???
Date: 31 October 2003
Today's
Daily Mail reports that
Ally McBeal's Calista Flockhart will at last be making her West End debut early in the new year. Flockhart was originally due to tread the boards at the Shaftesbury Theatre more than two years ago in Philip Barry's 1939 comedy
The Philadelphia Story, but that revival was indefinitely postponed, supposedly because of foot-and-mouth and general election timing concerns (See
News, 18 Apr 2001). Since then, the American actress' name has been regularly mentioned with that play as well as
All About Eve and Ibsen's
A Doll's House. However, it looks now like the debut vehicle will be Eugene O'Neill's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner
Anna Christie. Directed by Royal Court artistic director
Ian Rickson and produced by
Sonia Friedman, the new production is slated for an opening in February or March. And, all going to plan, that won't be the last we'll see of this Hollywood star. According to director
Laurence Boswell, Flockhart will follow
Anna Christie later next year with his own production of the already mooted Ibsen, as part of his newly formed production company (See The Goss,
24 Oct &
4 Sep 2003).
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