LondonTown.com Urges Fans to Book London Hotels Early to See Cate Blanchett Perform On Stage

    LONDON, ENGLAND, March 08, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett will take to the Barbican stage from 13th to 29th April 2012 when the Sydney Theatre Company performs a new English adaptation of Gross und Klein (which translates into Big and Small) by Botho Strauss. A highlight of the Barbican's 2012 theatre programme in the year the famous arts venue celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, Gross und Klein is likely to draw visitors to the capital and those coming from outside of London are advised to use the website LondonTown.com where details of London hotels located within walking distance of the iconic cultural centre are available.

There will undoubtedly be huge demand for tickets to see the play, first staged in 1978, which is part of the London 2012 Festival, not least to see Blachett's performance which has been widely acclaimed and described as her "bravest and most surprising" by Australia's prestigious daily newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Sydney Theatre Company has commissioned an adaptation by British playwright Martin Crimp especially for this production which features a cast of fourteen - there is strong support from Lynette Curran, Belinda McClory, Robert Menzies, and in particular from Josh McConville and Anita Hegh - directed by Benedict Andrews.

Cate Blanchett stars as Lotte in this surreal journey which follows the lonely and naively optimistic outsider through a series of strange encounters in which she tries, unsuccessfully, to connect with people. The delicate sequencing of events and isolated characterisation of Gross and Klein is often compared to the strangeness of Alice in Wonderland and is sure to delight and perplex British audiences.

Theatre goers who want to see the London staging of the Sydney Theatre Company's latest production on its European tour - which also travels to the Theatre de la Ville in Paris, the Vienna Festival, and the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen, Germany - can find booking details on LondonTown.com where previews of all the major cultural events of 2012 are given along with useful information on travel, accommodation and entertainment in the capital city.

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