It's the star factor. Tickets for Big and Small, by the controversial German writer Botho Strauss, are selling fast because Cate Blanchett is in it. Her protean presence in this production by the Sydney Theatre Company, of which she is the co-artistic director, casts a glow over the whole event " she's on stage for almost the entire running time of two and three-quarter hours. But there are other pleasures to savour …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PM on April 14, 2012