59 h. ago Cate Blanchett soars in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also star in this three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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61 h. ago Cate Blanchett shines in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Cate Blanchett stars in a three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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2 d. ago The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent

The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent  The Stage

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2 d. ago The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic

The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic  Time Out London

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2 d. ago The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett's performance the year's best?

Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chekhov class

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3 d. ago Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

Steven Soderbergh’s spy comedy sends two married agents after a mole, who might turn out to be one of themThe months and years drag on with no new James Bond, no clear indication of how he is to be repurposed as IP. Into this vacuum has rushed a new generation of spy stories on streaming television: action-intelligence office procedurals such as Black Doves, The Day of the Jackal, Slow Horses and indeed The Agency, starring Michael Fassbender, remade from the French show Le Bureau Des Légendes. These are secret agent dramas that give us the violence and the tech, juxtaposing suspected treason and infidelity in the traditional way, but with a new kind of workaday realist sexiness, and more elaborately about showing up for work: much emphasis on ID badges of various security-clearance levels that beep on card readers and can be worn round your neck on lanyards.Steven Soderbergh’s downbeat, affectless tongue-in-cheek spy comedy (“caper” isn’t quite right) is in this new mode, though ta...

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