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Cate Blanchett hopes to repeat Streetcar success with Chekhov classic - The Australian (25sep09) |
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SYDNEY Theatre Company has struck
box-office gold with its steamy, sell-out production of A Streetcar
Named Desire, and will be hoping for the same next year with a more
genteel play, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
The lure to ticket-buyers is Cate Blanchett, actress and STC's
resident muse.
Blanchett will tread the boards in Chekhov's
gentle comedy with John Bell, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving.
"Good
Chekhov is like being at an amazing dinner party, and I'd want to sit
at a table with all of those men," Blanchett said of her co-stars.
Her
husband and co-artistic director at STC, Andrew Upton, will write a new
adaptation of the stage classic. The director, likely to be an
international name, is yet to be announced, although Marion Potts is
listed as associate director.
STC's 2010 season takes a long
look at the US.
It includes American actor William Hurt and
Robyn Nevin in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and
Philip Seymour Hoffman directs Sam Shepard's True West.
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company brings its world premiere
production of Tracy Letts's August: Osage County.
Australian
plays in the program include Joanna Murray-Smith's Honour and The
Grenade by Tony McNamara.
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