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”.
‘All the time a privilege’
The brand new adaptation will mark a reunion for Blanchett and Burke, who lately accomplished filming for Steven Soderbergh’s forthcoming movie Black Bag.
Ostermeier advised BBC Information: “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 are going to make our first creative 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 biggest theatrical roles of Arkadina.
“I’m additionally more than happy to be forging a brand new creative relationship with Tom Burke, who will play the position of Trigorin.”
One other manufacturing of The Seagull, starring Recreation of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke, performed in London two years in the past.
Tom Burke performs Cormoran Strike within the TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Strike novel sequence
Blanchett’s character Arkadina is a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates each the stage and her private relationships.
However when she arrives at her household’s nation property for the weekend, she should navigate a sequence 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, vainness, disappointment and need.
The Seagull can be produced by Wessex Grove, the identical workforce behind Ostermeier’s manufacturing of An Enemy of the Individuals, which starred Matt Smith earlier this yr.
Blanchett final carried out on the Barbican stage in 2012’s Huge and Small (Gross und Klein).
Her final theatre position general, nevertheless, was simply earlier than the Covid pandemic, in a 2019 manufacturing of When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Every Different on the Nationwide Theatre.
Blanchett has had an extended and diverse 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 appearing Oscars, profitable twice – for The Aviator and Blue Jasmine.
Burke has appeared in The Surprise, Dwelling, The Memento and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in addition to the BBC’s Strike.