Joining the recent run of big-screen stars drawn to the London stage,
Bafta award-winning Cate Blanchett takes the lead in the first major revival of David Hare 's seminal play of the seventies, Plenty. In 12 scenes spaced over 20 years, it tells the story of Susan Traherne , from wartime work in occupied France to losing her sanity and being abandoned by her husband in sixties London. How does Hare's vision of postwar Britain look today?
Paul Allen discusses tonight's opening at the Almeida. And is France, dogged for a decade by political disillusionment, on the brink of a new epoch? Did last year's World Cup triumph symbolise a more profound social and cultural renaissance? Paul Allen discusses social change across the Channel. Producer Zahid Warley