Keira Knightley’s play has taken £1million at the box office in just four days – even though it hasn’t opened yet!

The advance sales are totally unheard of and have caused quite a stir.

The Misanthrope marks Keira’s West End stage debut and the news of her casting was only announced a week ago, yet her fans are flocking in droves for tickets. The play is an updated version of a 17th century comedy by famed French playwright Moliere.

The wonderful British actor Damian Lewis will star opposite Keira Knightley when the play opens on December 7th of 2009.

Its success is even more impressive considering the only publicity so far has consisted of reports in newspaper gossip columns.

There’s been no advance advertising and the poster image of the cast was only shot yesterday.

I hope the play, and Keira are a huge, huge success. I have no doubt that they will be.

Click the lovely picture of Keira Knightley at the top of the page or a thumbnail below to take a walk down memory lane and enjoy her pictures from the Premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 2: DMC (London) July 3, 2006. Sometimes I really miss the days of Keira, Johnny, and Orlando during the height of the POTC movies. They were so much fun!

Edit: I forgot to mention, I’ve gotten a Twitter account and would love for you to follow – I’ll follow you back, of course! I’ll use this twitter account to cover my Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie, and Megan Fox sites, among other things. I’ll probably end up using it for lots of humor, celebrity and fashion-related topics. You know, the fun stuff! The address is http://twitter.com/actressglamour. I just opened it this morning, so I don’t have a heckuva lot yet. I’m working on it though.

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