The Present 2017
Run Time:
Three hours, with one intermission
Three hours, with one intermission
Ages: 5+
Opened: January 8, 2017Closing: March 19, 2017
The Present - 2017 - Broadway History , Info & More
Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Broadway)
243 West 47th St. New York, NY
Variously known as Platonov, Wild Honey, Fatherlessness and The Disinherited, Anton Chekhov's untitled first play was not discovered until 1920, some 16 years after the playwright's death.
Andrew Upton's adaptation is set post-Perestroika in the mid-1990s at an old country house where friends gather to celebrate the birthday of the independent but compromised widow Anna Petrovna (Blanchett). At the center is the acerbic and witty Platonov (Roxburgh) with his wife, his former students and friends and their partners. They may appear comfortable, but boiling away inside is a mess of unfinished, unresolved relationships, fuelled by twenty years of denial, regret and thwarted desire.
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'The Present,' or, Cate Blanchett's Explosive Birthday Weekend
7 / 10
Fireworks, here, are both metaphorical and literal: Halfway through the three-hour drama, the sensual leading lady detonates the countryside summer house where much of the first act has transpired. 40 ... it's the new 14? An adaptation by Andrew Upton, who is Blanchett's husband, 'The Present' arrives at The Barrymore Theatre with its original Australian cast intact. Anna's foil, Mikhail, a childhood friend and former paramour, is played by Richard Roxburgh, who may be best known to American audiences from Baz Luhrmann's 'Moulin Rouge.'
‘The Present’ review: A Chekhovian gift from Cate Blanchett
9 / 10
It would be possible - and extremely pleasurable - to spend most of the three hours at 'The Present' just watching Cate Blanchett. Here she is playing the seemingly confident widow Anna on the eve of her 40th birthday. She stares out from her late husband's Russian country estate wearing a filmy summer dress. She lounges unselfconsciously in the laps of her party guests, enjoying a foot massage from her grown stepson.
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The Present FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What productions of The Present have there been?
The Present has had 1 productions including Broadway which opened in 2017.
What awards has The Present been nominated for?
The Present has been nominated for the Distinguished Performance Award at the Drama League Awards for Cate Blanchett.
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