Ex-Libertines member Barat to make London stage debut next year
Carl Barat, a former member of rock band the Libertines, is to make his London stage debut alongside actress Sadie Frost in a repertory season entitled Desire&Destruction at the Riverside Studios.
The musician will take on the role of Eddie in Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love, which is being produced by theatre company Love&Madness.
Frost, who earlier this year completed a run of one-woman play Touched… For The Very First Time at the Trafalgar Studios, will play May in Fool For Love and Lady Anne in Richard III.
Love&Madness 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 programme will also include Demi-Monde, a devised piece that will focus on designer William Morris. The season will run from January 25 to March 21.
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