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DESCRIPTION:Aug 19 - Oct 10\, 2026\nBringing together two stories set centu
 ries apart\, the National Theatre’s production of Electra/Persona asks w
 hat happens when a woman’s rage can no longer be contained by the roles 
 society assigns her. Sophocles’s Electra (Cate Blanchett) is consumed by
  grief after her father\, Agamemnon\, is murdered by her mother\, Clytemne
 stra\, and Aegisthus\, her mother’s lover. Rather than accept the new or
 der in her household\, Electra refuses to stop grieving—her voice is the
  only power available to her and by speaking she keeps Clytemnestra’s ve
 rsion of events from becoming the accepted truth. Ingmar Bergman’s Elisa
 bet\, by contrast\, is an actress who chooses to protest in silence: while
  performing the title role in Electra\, she stops speaking and withdraws f
 rom language entirely. Director Benedict Andrews puts the two women in con
 versation—one who cannot stop speaking\, one who refuses to speak at all
 —to show how repression intensifies emotions until they surface in unpre
 dictable and disruptive ways. Greek tragedy has long given that rage a voi
 ce\; one thinks also of Medea’s fury and Antigone’s courage. The passi
 on of these ancient women\, Andrews’s production proposes\, still feels 
 urgent today. As Natalie Haynes writes in The Guardian\, “Move over\, Od
 ysseus—it’s time for the women of ancient Greece to have their moment 
 in the sun.” Electra/Persona runs at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton 
 Theatre from August 19 to October 10.
LOCATION:Lyttleton Theatre\, South Bank\, London SE1 9PX\, United Kingdom
SUMMARY:Electra/Persona
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