Davis and Bazeley Confirmed To Join McElhone In FATAL ATTRACTION

Mark Bazeley and Kristin Davis will join the previously announced Natascha McElhone in Trevor Nunn's production of Fatal Attraction to play Dan and Beth Gallagher. Written by James Dearden, the world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 25 March 2014, with previews now starting on 11 March and currently booking to 21 June 2014. Designs are by Rob Jones with lighting by Paul Pyant and sound by Paul Groothuis.

The cast is led Natascha McElhone as Alex Forrest with Mark Bazeley as Dan Gallagher and Kristin Davis as his wife Beth. Other cast includes Jane How as Joan and Alex Lowe as Jimmy. Final casting will be announced shortly.

This story of obsession and revenge explores how a chance meeting in a bar and a casual encounter quickly becomes a living nightmare for Dan Gallagher, a successful New York lawyer, and his young family. After spending one weekend with the gorgeous Alex Forrest, he assumes he can just walk away, but Alex is a woman who refuses to be ignored. She pursues Dan and his family with terrifying consequences.

Mark Bazeley (Dan Gallagher) was last on stage in Trevor Nunn's production of Scenes from a Marriageat the St James' Theatre. His other theatre credits include Our New Girl for the Bush Theatre, The Seagullfor the National Theatre, Death of a Salesman at the Lyric Theatre, Macbeth at the Albery Theatre,Homebody/Kabul for the Young Vic and The Real Thing for the Donmar Warehouse. His television credits include Death in Paradise, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Endeavour, The Accused, Mistresses, Hustle, Spooks and Prime Suspect. Bazeley's film credits include The Queen, The Damned United and The Special Relationship.

Kristin Davis will make her West End stage debut as Beth Gallagher. She is best known on television for playing Charlotte in HBO's Sex and the City. Her other television credits include the role of Brooke Armstrong in Melrose Place and more recently Ginny in Bad Teacher , as well as guest appearances on Will & Grace, Friends, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show and ER. Her many film credits include Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Sex and The City 1 & 2, Couples Retreat, Deck The Halls, The Shaggy Dog and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D. In 2012 Davis made her Broadway stage debut in Gore Vidal'sThe Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. She made her British stage debut playing Sunny Jacobs inThe Exonerated in London in 2006 at Hammersmith's Riverside Studio, following an off-Broadway run. Davis also performed in the Brave New World season, a three day marathon of 50 original works that commemorated the September 11th attacks.

Natascha McElhone's (Alex Forrest) stage credits include Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dreamfor the Open Air Theatre Regents Park, The Count of Monte Cristo at Manchester Royal Exchange, Mishe Mokiev's production of The Cherry Orchard at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre and more recently, Honourat Wyndhams' Theatre. Her extensive film credits include Surviving Picasso, The Truman Show, The Devil's Own, Ronin, Solaris, The Secret of Moonacre Manor, Mrs Dalloway, Laurel Canyon, Ladies in Lavender, The Kid, Theatre of Dreams and Love's Labour's Lost. More recently McElhone starred in The Sea opposite Rufus Sewell and Ciaran Hinds. Her many television credits include NBC's mini-seriesRevelations, The Company and Sleepyhead for Sky TV. McElhone stars as Karen in the popular Showtime TV series Californication, now airing its last and final season.

James Dearden wrote his Academy Award nominated original screenplay for Fatal Attraction in 1986, based on his short film Diversion, which he wrote, produced and directed in 1979. He wrote and directedPascali's Island in 1987 - starring Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance and Helen Mirren - which was selected as the official British entry for the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Dearden has worked extensively as a screenwriter in Hollywood for a number of years, during which time he also wrote and directed the feature films A Kiss Before Dying and Rogue Trader. He recently co-wrote the screenplay of Albert Cohen's Belle de Seigneur. This theatrical version of Fatal Attraction marks his first venture into Live Theatre.

Trevor Nunn returns to the Theatre Royal Haymarket where as Artistic Director he directed Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion In Winter. Nunn was the longest-serving Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1968 to 1986). From 1997 to 2003 he was Director of the National Theatre. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll, and of Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White. More recently his theatre credits include A Little Night Music for the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End and on Broadway, Cyrano de Bergerac for Chichester Festival Theatre, Inherit the Wind and Kiss Me Kate for The Old Vic, Birdsong and A Chorus of Disapproval at the Comedy Theatre, Relative Values for the Theatre Royal Bath, All That Fall in London and off Broadway and Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre.

Fatal Attraction is produced by Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions, Robert Fox and Patrick Ryecart.

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