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Ajax

  • Stage Direction
  • Concept
  • 1998

Ajax by Sophocles set in the Gulf where the British and their allies expediated against the Iraqis

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About

Ajax by Sophocles examines the working of the heroic code “Harm your enemies, help your friends”. While in Sophocles’ play the Trojans were the enemy, the show is set in the Gulf where the British and their allies expediated against the Iraqis.

Credits

By: Sophocles
Translation: Robert Cannon
Direction: Elli Papakonstantinou

Performers: Lucy Christofi-Christy, Clive Bennet, Charles Abomeli, Yuka Yamanaka (You-Ri), Christopher Greco, Jason Housecroft, Camden McDonald, Matteo Zanotti, Nikos Siskos
Radio voice: Zacharias Hadjishakkalis

Set + Costume Design: Sofia Pantouvaki
Music Composition: Antonis Theodoropoulos
Choreography: Thomas Gkountis
Lighting Designer: Phil Spencer-Hunter
Assistant Set Designer + Stage Manager: Penelope Mitsakaki
Assistant Stage Manager: Melody Wood
Set Assistant: Alexandros Babanicolos

Production Manager: Ioannis Galeadis
Public Relations: Kevin Wilson, KWPR
Programme Editor & Co-ordinator: Sofia Pantouvaki
Text Selection: Sofia Marathaki
Recording Studio: Sugar Studios

Dates

May - June 1998 Jermyn Street Theater, West End London, United Kingdom

Reviews

Lizzie Loverridge, Theatreworld Magazine

If you can imagine Stephen Berkoff as a working-class woman, you have some idea of this piece’s power…