{"id":14255,"date":"2026-07-30T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/30\/people-say-im-pouring-coca-cola-into-fine-malt-whisky-why-is-the-national-theatre-shaking-up-sophocles-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:35:50","slug":"people-say-im-pouring-coca-cola-into-fine-malt-whisky-why-is-the-national-theatre-shaking-up-sophocles-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/30\/people-say-im-pouring-coca-cola-into-fine-malt-whisky-why-is-the-national-theatre-shaking-up-sophocles-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People say I\u2019m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky\u2019: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles? Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live today?<\/p>\n<p>In around 420BC, Sophocles staged Electra, in which the title character avenges the murder of her father by her mother, Clytemnestra. In 1966, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman premiered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/dec\/29\/persona-review-ingmar-bergman-rerelease\">Persona<\/a>, in which a psychiatric nurse, Alma, is caring for Elisabeth, an actor who has suffered a breakdown while playing Electra. These two dramas, written 23 centuries apart, are now sharing the stage in an alluring new National Theatre production.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/productions\/electra-persona\/\">Electra\/Persona<\/a>, director Benedict Andrews has paired the stories before and after the interval, linked by a stunning coup de theatre at the end of the first half. \u201cPersona is a pinnacle of modernist cinema and Bergman is a north star for me,\u201d says Andrews. \u201cI\u2019ve long been fascinated by the impossibility \u2013 in a good way \u2013 of staging Persona, because it is so much about the camera and the silence and the closeup: the face as a terrain. And I was always fascinated by why Bergman chose to have Elisabeth break down while playing Electra, so I wanted to put them together. I think it\u2019s become clear in rehearsal that the whole evening is one cycle of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/jul\/30\/sophocles-bergman-cate-blanchett-nina-hoss-electra-persona\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/jul\/30\/sophocles-bergman-cate-blanchett-nina-hoss-electra-persona\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dd234faa7eafb245e8ebb8a22e77402047b2f17c\/9_0_1615_1292\/master\/1615.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=72c4ed2c6ed6606291c1837038c1a876\" title=\"\u2018People say I\u2019m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky\u2019: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. 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