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Photo Coverage: Meet the Cast of Broadway's THE PRESENT

By: Dec. 09, 2016
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Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh will be joined by the entire original cast of The Present when Sydney Theatre Company's production of Andrew Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's first play opens on Broadway. The limited season commences previews at the Barrymore Theatre on 17 December 2016, opening on 8 January and closing on 19 March 2017. See brand new photos of the cast of the production below.

John Crowley's acclaimed production features Anna Bamford (Maria), Cate Blanchett (Anna), Andrew Buchanan (Osip), David Downer (Yegor), Eamon Farren (Kirill), Martin Jacobs (Alexei), Brandon McClelland (Dimitri), Jacqueline McKenzie (Sophia), Marshall Napier (Ivan), Susan Prior (Sasha), Richard Roxburgh (Platonov), Chris Ryan (Sergei) and Toby Schmitz (Nikolai).

Variously known as Platonov, Wild Honey, Fatherlessness and The Disinherited, Anton Chekhov's 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. At the centre is the acerbic and witty Platonov 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, fueled by twenty years of denial, regret and thwarted desire.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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'The Present' at The New 42nd Street Studios on December 8, 2016 in New York City.

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Brandon McClelland, Toby Schmitz and Chris Ryan

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Chris Ryan and John Crowley

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Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton

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Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Eamon Farren

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Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton

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Richard Roxburgh

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Cate Blanchett

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Richard Roxburgh, Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh with the cast and creative team

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