Director Andrew Upton and Hugo Weaving have come together for a new Sydney Theatre Company production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.
Weaving, best known for his five-second cameo as Elrond in the horrendously overblown third Hobbit movie, and Upton, best known for being married to Cate Blanchett, who’s best known for her five-second cameo as Galadriel in the horrendously overblown third Hobbit movie*, have reunited again to put on yet another Beckett play. In 2013, they put on Beckett’s classic Waiting For Godot, and Endgame is considered a companion piece.
The production will also feature Sir Robert Menzies’s grandson, renowned actor Robert Menzies, plus veteran Australian actor Bruce Spence and New Zealander Sarah Peirse, who, yes, was in The Hobbit.
*OK, they’ve achieved a few other things along the way, too.
Endgame will play at Sydney Theatre Company‘s Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Theatre) from Wednesday April 8 – Saturday May 9.
