The play, which is a backstage comedy about a tatty production of Noel Coward's play Private Lives, opens next Monday at the Old Vic after weeks in Guildford and Bath.
She is appearing alongside Frank Langella, the American stage and screen veteran and the former partner of Whoopi Goldberg, in the British premiere of Ken Ludwig's Over the Moon, which was a hit for Carol Burnett on Broadway six years ago. The former Dynasty star is maintaining her reputation as the best preserved 68-year-old in the business in a breathtaking, thigh-slapping, swash-buckling costume.
With London theatres suffering a crisis, the foot-and-mouth outbreak being followed by the terror attacks in America, who better than to make her first appearance on a London stage for a decade than Joan Collins?
