Ajax
From: Tuesday, 26th May 2009
To: Saturday, 25 July 2009
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Synopsis
Classic Greek drama. A slighted warrior's quest for vengeance brings with it shame and madness.
Our Review:
28 May 2009
In the programme notes director Jack Shepherd relays his hopes of making this Sophocles play ‘more comprehensible with a contemporary social resonance’. So how did he end up with a production that lacks lucidity and feels so strangely inconsequential? As part of the Riverside Studio’s Madness season, the Love & Madness ensemble are in rep giving us a lively Macbeth. This version of Ajax transplanted to WW1 is next on the bill; regrettably however, a play about one man’s pride, arrogance and vengeance is slovenly utilised as general commentary on war.
Lest we forget, Ajax is a character who throws a monumental hissy fit after being refused Achilles’ armour during the Trojan War and in retribution attempts to massacre the whole of his own high command. Fooled by the Goddess Athena, he slaughters the army’s flock of sheep instead and subsequently revels in the belief that he is torturing his fellow Greek Odysseus until realising that...
Creative
Sophocles (Author)
Love and Madness Ensemble (Company)
Jack Shepherd (Director)
Robert Cannon (Translation)
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