Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of ...
Director Thomas Ostermeier brings a combination of devil-may-care boldness and truth to Duncan Macmillan's witty new ...
The great Cate Blanchett returns to the stage in a new version of the Chekhov classic from German auteur Thomas Ostermeier ...
The Seagull is a play written by Russian dramatist Chekhov in 1895 and first produced in 1896, and theatre goers worldwide ...
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"The gravitational pull of Cate’s star power is magnified in the role of Irina, a famous actress dismissive of an ...
Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also appear in a production at London’s Barbican that asks searching questions about art while ...
The reality of The Seagull is that it treads that fine line ... While the love interests move the play along, the core dynamic is that of mother and son, as poor Konstantin singularly fails ...
They’ve been to see Cate Blanchett in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Centre. The classic drama still features characters from Russian nobility – but it’s given a modern-day treatment ...