Carl Barat to make theatre debut
Friday November 27 2009
Carl Barat will be making his theatre debut with actress-fashion designer Sadie Frost.
The award-winning ex-Libertines musician will play Eddie in Sam Shepard's Fool For Love, as part of LoveAndMadness theatre company, which will be shown in the forthcoming DesireAndDestruction repertory season at London's Riverside Studios.
"I have always wanted to act, so when Sadie and Neil offered me this I was very much up for it - it's certainly one hell of a challenge, but I'm really enjoying the process of collaboration," he said.
Sadie - who completed a West End run of one-woman play Touched For The Very First Time at the Trafalgar Studios in spring 2009 - will be taking on the part of May in the play, as well as playing Lady Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III.
"It has been amazing and I have loved the fact that, as a performer, I have been given the rare opportunity to be an integral part of the company's creative process," she said.
LoveAndMadness artistic director, Neil Sheppeck said: "We are thrilled to have been given the opportunity to work with both Sadie and Carl and hope that, through their involvement with the company, we will be able to entertain not only regular theatre-goers but also to attract a whole new audience into the theatre for the first time."
The DesireAndDestruction repertory season will be shown at London's Riverside Studios from January 25 to March 21 2010.
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