Photo Flash: First Look at Cate Blanchett & Company in THE PRESENT on Broadway

Andrew Upton's new adaptation ofAnton Chekhov's first play, Platonov,The Present opened just last night at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 19, 2017. THE PRESENT features the Sydney Theatre Company cast of 13, each making their Broadway debut, including Cate Blanchett (Anna) and Richard Roxburgh (Mikhail).

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 (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, fueled by twenty years of denial, regret and thwarted desire.

Check out a first look at the cast in action below!

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett

Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Ryan, Eamon Farren

Cast of The Present

Richard Roxburgh, Chris Ryan

Richard Roxburgh

Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Chris Ryan, Susan Prior

Cast of The Present

Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh

Susan Prior, Chris Ryan

Eamon Farren, Martin Jacobs

Brandon McClelland, Richard Roxburgh, David Downer, Cate Blanchett

Toby Schmitz, Richard Roxburgh, Chris Ryan

Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett