Blanchett wants play to provoke conversation about equality

CATE Blanchett wants her new play to provoke conversation about equality and gender boundaries. The 49-year-old actress is set to star in Martin Crimp’s latest work ‘When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other’ - based on Samuel Richardson’s novel ‘Pamela’ which follows the relationship between a young woman and her employer and explores themes of sexual domination and gender roles. The ‘Oceans 8’ star said that her latest play channels impulses from the #MeToo movement and insisted that it is vital to create a piece for “the time you’re in” otherwise the project is futile. In an interview with the Guardian, she said: “You make a piece for the time you’re in, otherwise it’s not relevant. What’s the point of doing it? I always see theatre as a provocation. “You’re not up there running for office; you’re asking a serious of questions. Some people might be enraged, some perplexed, some people might be excited. Hopefully, it’s the conversation afterwards that’s the most important.” — BANG Showbiz