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To quote from “Private Lives”: “If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck there’s no knowing what one mightn’t do.” It’s easy to imagine Samantha, the ever-lusty vixen played by Ms. Cattrall in “Sex and the City,” saying those words with groaning insinuation. But as Coward’s Amanda, who falls in love with her ex-husband while on her honeymoon with another man, Ms. Cattrall delivers such lines with wonder, apprehension and resignation.

Paired with Matthew Macfadyen (“Pride and Prejudice”) as Elyot, Amanda’s once and future beloved, Ms. Cattrall brings a note of (dare I say it?) innocence to her worldly character. Mr. Eyre’s revival doesn’t have the teasing depths and shadows of Howard Davies’s superb 2001 production. Ms. Cattrall and Mr. Macfadyen are less whimsical, less complicated and less sexually ambiguous. While this means they are not quite classically Coward, they remain very funny. This is an expertly timed and paced “Private Lives,” played purely for surface comedy and none the worse for it.

Matthieu a écrit:Private Lives, Vaudeville Theatre, London (The Independent, 8 mars 2010).
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