Cate Blanchett Tells Audience To Stop Recording Her London Play: ‘It Spoils It for The Next Group of People’

Cate Blanchett requested that audience members stop recording her performance in the London play Electra/Persona at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre. During a video shared on Instagram, the actress explained that filming spoils the experience for future viewers. She emphasized that the stage is one of the few remaining places where people can simply be together and be present. The production, written and directed by Benedict Andrews, merges the Sophocles tragedy Electra with Ingmar Bergman’s Persona.