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Electra: A daughter consumed by grief and rage, clinging to the idea of justice as her world comes apart. Persona: During a performance of Electra, an actress suddenly falls silent. What follows is a rupture: two women drawn into an intense, unsettling encounter where speech breaks down and the boundaries between self and role give way. Featuring Cate Blanchett (The Seagull), Nina Hoss (The Cherry Orchard), and Ella Lily Hyland (Black Doves), Benedict Andrews' (A Streetcar Named Desire) thrilling production fuses ancient myth and modern psychology in a powerful exploration of identity, and the fragile line between who we are and who we play.
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00:00None of us knew what this was going to be.
00:02We still don't know. We're trying to figure it out.
00:04Get me out of here.
00:05I'm trying to think, when did the idea of switching,
00:09you know, because that seems to have become...
00:11That began with you two.
00:14Right. So that madness is our fault.
00:16Yes, it's all your fault.
00:17The play continually contains its own reflections
00:20about this doubling as well.
00:22The whole first part, Elektra, kind of puts into question
00:25what does a mother receive from a daughter?
00:27How is a mother like a daughter?
00:29Persona is so beautifully about this merging of two people
00:34till they really swap roles.
00:36I thought what would happen, this crazy task,
00:40if we would literally put that at the core of our work.
00:43And it's a beautiful and insane experiment.
00:47The two of you are like the same,
00:49but just different expressions of it.
00:51I love how generous that is though.
00:54There's such a generosity to that as well.
00:56I watch you do Clytemnestra and I think, that's a good thing.
00:59And then you go and you do it better.
01:01And then you go...
01:01Stop.
01:03This is so much about wrestling for perspective
01:06and who gets heard and whose story doesn't get heard.
01:10And so the tension between those two types of storytelling
01:13has been confounding and challenging.
01:17It's been such a mystery to sort of try and unpack.
01:20It just dall and its regeneration
01:24Time for nurses and other managers
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