Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has accepted a position as co-director of Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company, along with her husband, director Andrew Upton. “Blanchett revealed that both she and Upton were on three-year contracts, each of which has a three-month ‘slot-out’ clause in-built into the contractual arrangement, to allow either one of them to take three months out each year should they wish to pursue other activities.”