Cate on stage

Oscar-winner, Cate Blanchett will make her stage directorial debut with A Kind of Alaska.

Australian-born Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett is set to make her directorial debut, by directing Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska as part of the Sydney Theatre Company 2006 season next December.

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Blanchett had earlier performed the role of Hedda Gabler for the Company in 2004, for which she had received much critical acclaim, and will reprise the role in March next year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, reports the BBC quoting a report in Variety.

The actress has starred in a host of critically acclaimed films including Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.