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Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill

Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double billWorldPing

Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trapped in a cycle of vengeance, the Persona part to Ingmar Bergman’…

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