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The Vagina Monologues (1999)
Play by: Eve Ensler
Performance date: 14 February 1999
Venue: The Old Vic Theatre, London
In 1994, a play called The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler), broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews V conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women.
Some of the performers:
Cate Blanchett
Meera Syal
Sophie Dahl
Gillian Anderson
Kate Winslet
Melanie Griffith
Thandie Newton
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- “After two years of film, where it is easy to get carried away with yourself, it was wonderful to be part of making something bigger than me.” (Elle US, May 1999)
Trivia & Facts
- The play is performed annually to bring attention to V-Day, global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. The performances benefit rape crisis centers and similar resource centers for women.
Right You Are (If You Think You Are) (2007)
Cate Blanchett as: Signora Ponza
Directed by: Francesco Vezzoli
Written by: Luigi Pirandello
Performance date: 27 October 2007
Venue: Guggenheim Museum, New York
The play examines the fundamental ambiguity of truth, and the seductive powers of language in conjuring up a female character who may never actually appear amongst the actors on stage as they obsessively dissect her attributes and identity. Rumor and celebrity mongering become the substitute for a deeply examined life.
Cast
Ellen Burstyn
Cate Blanchett
Natalie Portman
Abigail Breslin
Peter Sarsgaard
David Strathairn
Elaine Stritch
Dianne Wiest
Anita Ekberg
Marcus Carl Franklin
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- This was the play’s first ever live performance.
Minutes of a Separation (2008)
Cate Blanchett as: Clarissa Jones
Directed by: Nigel Jamieson
Date: June 2008
Venue: Salon de la Haute Horlogerie, Switzerland
A multimedia theatre performance written specially for the 140th anniversary of IWC Schaffhausen is a creative interpretation of the myth surrounding the founder of IWC.
Cast
Cate Blanchett as Clarissa Jones
Joseph Fiennes as Florentine Ariosto Jones
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- Cate Blanchett and Joseph Fiennes starred together in Elizabeth (1998).
On Passion (2010)
Written by: Dorothy Porter
Performance date: 21 February 2010
Venue: CUB Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
We discover the young Dorothy Porter’s ‘drug of choice’ was none other than romantic love and that ‘some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the covers of a book’. Written just before she passed away in 2008, On Passion is a wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
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Quotes from Others
- Andrea Goldsmith:
— On Cate Blanchett’s reading: “It was absolutely wonderful. What I loved most of all was a sense of intimacy to it. She held me in the moment. Cate, like any great artist, knows passion. It was an ideal match.”
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It’s not possible to bring back the dead, but yesterday the final work of Australian poet Dorothy Porter was bought vividly to life by actress Cate Blanchett in a sold-out Things On Sunday event at the Malthouse Theatre.
Blanchett read Porter’s final book, On Passion, part of the Little Books on Big Themes series published by Melbourne University Press.
Written shortly before Porter’s death from breast cancer in 2008 at age 54, the 10,000-word essay is a fearless reflection on the subjects that gave her life meaning: poetry, desire, nature, music and most powerfully, her own mortality.
The essay also explores the quieter moments of her life; a glimpse of an azure kingfisher, revelling at the novelty of an iPod, all explored with what Porter calls simply ”gusto”.
On a stark stage, Blanchett delivered the essay with few theatrical flourishes. Wearing little make-up and a simple black dress, the Oscar-winning actress let the weight and wit of Porter’s words speak for themselves.
As the house lights brightened once Blanchett finished the reading, the crowd responded immediately. Blanchett extended her arms out slightly and clapped too, a gesture that appeared to be a thank you to Porter. Speaking after the performance, Goldsmith, visibly moved, said she found the experience surreal. ”Dot did a lot of work in her head on the essay,” she said.
The Land of the Free (2019)
Cate Blanchett as: Rosa Gold
Directed by: Joe Harmston
Written by: Diane Samuels
Performance date: 24 March 2019
Venue: Middle Temple Hall, London
Land of the Free interrogates the conflict between personal and political love as seen in the context of political discourse in the United States from the hysteria of the McCarthy era to the year of the Twin Towers attack. The play explores the true price of freedom and the cost of devoting one’s life to fighting for a more just world.
Cast
List of the cast here.
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Review
- Dominic Grieve MP — “Absolutely riveting opportunity to watch a great actor grapple with a completely new and challenging character “live”. The pared down format of the Kalisher productions lets the audience into the process so up close that you can almost hear the actors thinking and that draws you into the play. If the play, as a Kalisher play always is, is potent and thought provoking nearly 200 people are focussed as one on the author’s intentions. Land of the Free explored current hard questions of state power and revolution on an intensely human scale by reference to the USA of the last decades of the 20th century.”
Trivia
- Cate Blanchett’s second son, Roman Upton, played the 11-year old version of the character, Ben Gold.
A Manual for Cleaning Women (202?)
Father Mother Brother Sister (2025) 
Black Bag (2025) 
The Seagull (2025)
Bozo Over Roses (2025)
Disclaimer (2024) 
Rumours (2024) 
Borderlands (2024) 
The New Boy (2023) 
