Cate Blanchett was all smiles as she joined her co-stars for the press night of her new play The Seagull at the Barbican in London on Thursday night.
The Australian actress, 55, kept it smart and simple in an all black ensemble as she fashioned a long-sleeved black top with square shoulder pads.
She paired the top with a matching pair of black trousers and square-toed black shoes before adding some light lensed glasses for some snaps.
Cate was joined by her co-star Emma Corrin who kept it casual in a half untucked black shirt and denim blue jeans.
The duo were joined by fellow cast mates Tom Burke and Kodi Smit-McPhee as they celebrated the opening night of their six week run.
Cate stars as Arkadina, a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates both the stage and her personal relationships.
Cate Blanchett cut a sophisticated style as she joined co-star Emma Corrin at The Seagull press night at the Barbican on Thursday evening
The Australian actress, 55, kept it smart and simple in an all black ensemble as she fashioned a long-sleeved black top with square shoulder pads
The plot reads: ‘Arriving at her family’s country estate for the weekend, she finds herself caught in a storm of conflicting desires.
‘Her playwright son, Konstantin (Kodi Smit-McPhee), struggles to step out of her shadow as he pursues his own artistic ambitions and her lover Trigorin (Tom Burke) becomes the object of affection for the aspiring young actress Nina (Emma Corrin).’
Praising Cate’s performance The Daily Mail’s Patrick Marmion’s wrote: ‘With her geometrical features, Blanchett is as masklike and inscrutable as ever.
‘But she’s playful, too – her sensationally self-absorbed Arkadina, on forced holiday in the Russian countryside, reminded me at times of Jennifer Saunders in Ab Fab.’
Last month Cat and Emma looked incredible as they posed for British Vogue to promote their new play The Seagull.
Speaking to the magazine, Cate admitted she never thought she would become a film star when her career began.
She said: ‘I never, ever thought or expected to make films. When I came out of drama school, I understudied someone in a production of [Caryl Churchill’s] Top Girls [for the Sydney Theatre Company]. That was my first job.
‘Then I ended up coming back and running the company with my husband… [At the time,] the film industry was a potent but very small industry for women who looked a certain way. I wasn’t that girl and so I just went, ‘Oh, I’m a theatre actor, I guess.’
She paired the top with a matching pair of black trousers and square-toed black shoes before adding some light lensed glasses for some snaps
Emma, 29, kept it casual in a half untucked black shirt and denim blue jeans
The pair posed for a sweet snap together as they celebrated the start of their six week run
The duo were joined by fellow cast mates Tom Burke (L) as well as fellow actor Freddie Fox (R)
Paul Higgins, Tom Burke, Paul Bazely, Jason Watkins, Thomas Ostermeier, Emma Corrin, Tanya Reynolds, Cate Blanchett, Priyanga Burford and Zachary Hart (L-R)
Actor Tom Sturridge kept it simple in an all black ensemble
Celebs Go Dating star Tom Read Wilson caught the eye in a quirky green velvet jacket
Cate stars as Arkadina, a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates both the stage and her personal relationships
Irish actress Denise Gough (L) and German actress Nina Hoss (R) looked stylish for the evening
Emily Beecham wore a black jumper and wide legged three quarter length faded black jeans
Actors Tanya Reynolds and Zachary Hart were also in attendance
Cate posed with director Thomas Ostermeier
Last month Cate offered a rare insight into her relationship with motherhood as she posed for a stunning shoot with Harper’s Bazaar’s Spain.
The actress shares sons, Dashiell, 23, Roman, 20, and Ignatius, 16, with her husband of 27 years Andrew Upton, and they adopted daughter Edith in 2015.
Cate told the publication that despite her love and ‘adoration’ for her family she realises that being a mother is ‘not all that she is.’
She explained: ‘I love my children. Motherhood is a vital part of who I am, but it is not all that I am.’
‘I think there are many people who are a mother to communities in the workplace. It is equality, it is a sense of care, respect and nurturing.’
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