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Actress Cate Blanchett is to return to the stage for the primary time in six years, with a task in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull.
The Oscar winner will play Arkadina within the new adaptation, which may even star Strike actor Tom Burke.
The present will play on the Barbican Theatre in London for six weeks from February.
Its director Thomas Ostermeier described Blanchett as a “once-in-a-generation actress”.
The new adaptation will mark a reunion for Blanchett and Burke, who just lately accomplished filming for Steven Soderbergh’s forthcoming movie Black Bag.
Ostermeier advised BBC News: “I’ve identified and admired Cate for a few years, and to see her on stage is at all times a privilege.
“I’m thrilled that we’ll make our first inventive collaboration with this manufacturing of The Seagull on the Barbican, and that London will expertise this once-in-a-generation actress in one of many best theatrical roles of Arkadina.
“I’m additionally very happy to be forging a brand new inventive relationship with Tom Burke, who will play the position of Trigorin.”
Another manufacturing of The Seagull, starring Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke, performed in London two years in the past.
Blanchett’s character Arkadina is a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates each the stage and her private relationships.
But when she arrives at her household’s nation property for the weekend, she should navigate a collection of conflicts.
Her son struggles to step out of her shadow, and her lover turns into the romantic goal of an aspiring younger actress. The play explores themes together with ambition, self-importance, disappointment and need.
The Seagull can be produced by Wessex Grove, the identical workforce behind Ostermeier’s manufacturing of An Enemy of the People, which starred Matt Smith earlier this 12 months.
Blanchett final carried out on the Barbican stage in 2012’s Big and Small (Gross und Klein).
Her final theatre position total, nonetheless, was simply earlier than the Covid pandemic, in a 2019 manufacturing of When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other on the National Theatre.
Blanchett has had an extended and diversified movie profession, with credit together with Carol, Nightmare Alley, Tar, Don’t Look Up, Notes on a Scandal, Thor: Ragnarok and Ocean’s 8.
She has been nominated for eight performing Oscars, profitable twice – for The Aviator and Blue Jasmine.
Burke has appeared in The Wonder, Living, The Souvenir and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in addition to the BBC’s Strike.
