Cate Blanchett has signed on to star in a brand new stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull on the Barbican in London.
The manufacturing will mark Blanchett’s first stage look in six years.
Blanchett will painting Arkadina within the adaptation, which can also be set to star Tom Burke (The Memento). The manufacturing will run for six weeks from February 2025.
The manufacturing can be directed by Thomas Ostermeier who advised BBC Information of Blanchett’s casting: “I’ve identified and admired Cate for a few years, and to see her on stage is all the time a privilege.”
He added: “I’m thrilled that we are going to 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 more than happy to be forging a brand new inventive relationship with Tom Burke, who will play the function of Trigorin.”
Blanchett and Burke lately labored collectively on Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. Focus Features has picked up the movie and has set it for a March 14, 2025 launch.
The high-stakes thriller stars Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Web page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Burke, and Pierce Brosnan. The producers are Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs. David Koepp wrote the screenplay.
Blanchett will subsequent be seen in Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, a seven-episode restricted sequence for Apple TV+ The restricted sequence will make its world debut on October 11 with the primary two episodes adopted by new episodes each Friday by November 15.
Written and directed by Cuarón, Disclaimer relies on the best-selling novel of the identical title by Renée Knight and follows journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who constructed her status revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown writer, she is horrified to understand she is now the principle character in a narrative that exposes her darkest secrets and techniques.
