Cate Blanchett has dropped off the movie screen and jumped back into theatre following the dismal performance of her latest flick, sci-fi comedy Borderlands. 

The Oscar winner, 55, will return to the stage for a six-week stint at The Barbican in London starting in February 2025, reported Yahoo Lifestyle on Thursday.

In her first theatre performance in six years, the Australian actress will portray Arkadina in an adaptation of Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull.

Blanchett, who last appeared on stage for When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other in 2019, will act alongside Mad Max star Tom Burke as he plays Trigorin.  

The 1985 play follows Arkadina while she navigates personal conflicts as she risks losing her husband to someone younger and losing control of her son. 

Director Thomas Ostermeier recently told BBC News: ‘I have known and admired Cate for many years, and to see her on stage is always a privilege.

‘I am thrilled that we will make our first artistic collaboration with this production of The Seagull at the Barbican, and that London will experience this once-in-a-generation actress in one of the greatest theatrical roles of Arkadina.

‘I’m also very pleased to be forging a new artistic relationship with Tom Burke, who will play the role of Trigorin.’

Cate Blanchett, 55, has dropped off the big movie screen and jumped back into theatre following the dismal performance of her latest flick, sci-fi comedy Borderlands (pictured)

It comes after Blanchett’s latest movie Borderlands, which is based on the video game of the same name, landed with a thud at the box office.

The public appears to be staying away in droves from the much-hyped would-be blockbuster which has copped a drubbing from critics.

Directed by Eli Roth, the sci-fi action comedy cost a reputed $182million but only returned a paltry $13.3million on more than 3,000 screens over its opening weekend in the US earlier this month.

The Oscar winner will return to the stage for a six week stint at The Barbican in London starting in February 2025, reported Yahoo Lifestyle on Thursday

In her first theatre performance in six years, the Australian actress will portray Arkadina in an adaptation of Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull. Pictured: actress Judy Dench as Arkadina in the 1994 London play

And critics have not held back in putting the boot into the film in which Blanchett plays a futuristic ‘bounty hunter’.

On the aggregator site Metacritic the film has scored a pathetic rating of 27 out of 100, based on 34 reviews from some of America’s top critics.

Meanwhile, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film achieved a score of 10 per cent based on a global survey of 145 critics.

Blanchett, who has won two Oscars in her thirty-year career co-stars in the film alongside famed American comedian Kevin Hart and Hollywood veteran Jamie Lee Curtis. 

It will be Blanchett’s first stage performance since When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other in 2019 (pictured)