THE SEAGULL has concluded its run at the Barbican on Saturday, 5 April. Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke attended the Olivier Awards on Sunday, 6 April. They presented Best Revival which went to Oedipus at the Wyndham’s Theatre.

This year, the Earthshot Prize will be held in Brazil, Cate is a member of the council who select the winners.

Olivier Awards 2025

Cast of The Seagull at the Barbican

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Earthshot 2025

Individuals must not be made to feel burdened with solving climate change alone, Cate Blanchett has said, as she praises the Prince of Wales’s Earthshot Prize. Blanchett, the Oscar-winning actress, said that the “overwhelming nature of the climate challenge can lead to despair, but we don’t have time for apathy and inaction”. Noting that it is “really important to recognise that many people are struggling” themselves, she told the Telegraph: “Climate can feel like yet another burden to take on – that no one individual can make the changes needed to turn things around.”

“But,” she added, “(and it’s a big but!) collectively, we do have power. Small actions do add up. The way we consume does add up.”

The Earthshot Prize, founded by Prince William and now in its fifth year, awards £1 million annually to five inventors who have come up with new solutions to help save the planet. Blanchett, who attended the 2023 awards in Singapore, praised the awards for recognising “innovations that are not only game changing but rapidly scalable. The Prize, I feel, is a real injection of energised hope,” she said.
Since its inception, the Prize has identified over 5,300 emerging environmental innovations from 141 countries, recognised and supported 60 innovators through its Fellowship Programme, and awarded £20 million to Prize Winners to help scale their solutions.

Building on the past five years of events in London, Boston, Singapore, and Cape Town, this year’s Prize will shine a global spotlight on 15 groundbreaking environmental solutions, which The Earthshot Prize Council will select later this year.

The 15 Earthshot Prize Finalists will take part in a year-long accelerator programme that provides mentorship, technical resources, and support for growing their businesses, as well as access to a global network of partners across business, philanthropy, and investment.

As the world’s most biologically diverse country, Brazil plays a critical role in global efforts to protect and restore precious natural resources and ecosystems. Home to vast cities, an expansive coastline, and more than half of the Amazon Rainforest, innovators and indigenous communities are at the forefront of developing solutions that combine science, technology, and the power of the natural environment to reduce emissions, clean our air, and ensure our ecosystems remain healthy, strong, and diverse.