News for Sep. 11, 2005

Blanchett to try her hand as director

9/11/05, 9:42 pm EST - Xoanon

Cate Blanchett will make her directorial debut during the Sydney Theatre Company's season next year. The Oscar-winning star has agreed to direct a theatre double-bill with her scriptwriter husband, Andrew Upton, who will also debut as a director. Blanchett will direct A Kind Of Alaska, a play by Harold Pinter about a woman who awakes from a 29-year coma convinced she is 16. [More]