Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has returned to the stage to star in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at Liverpool Playhouse. The production, which is directed by Janet Suzman, includes Jeffery Kissoon as Antony along with RSC's Ian Hogg and Martin Hutson.
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Michael Hunt, Whatsonstage.com: Cattrall, of course, gives the production a big billing due to her star status and is very captivating over the three hours and ten minutes running time. In the programme notes, Cattrall said she was inspired by Suzman to become an actress. In return, she gives the director an encouraging performance that is likely to develop with real appeal. Cattrall's Cleopatra - the Queen of Egypt who Mark Antony (Kissoon) lusts after - is sexy, teasing, commanding and funny. She is supported by her handmaidens Charmian (Aïcha Kossoko) and Iras (Gracy Goldman), or her 'women' as she calls them, who - at a click of her fingers - answer her every beck and call in her palace in Alexandria, even leading up to her suicide.
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831287173327/Antony+%26+Cleopatra+%28Liverpool%29.html
Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail: Admittedly, Cattrall's English accent and grasp of the poetry did improve in the second half, but for the first 80 minutes of the preview I saw, she really wasn't at the races. What's more, for the whole of the first half she has just one costume - intolerable for Samantha Jones, unthinkable for Cleopatra. Cattrall fails to flaunt her character's gloriously manipulative caprice.
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