Ajax, Sophocles - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-05-27

A reading and discussion of Sophocles' Ajax (translated by Ian Johnston). Tim Delap, Anne Mason, Patrick Walshe McBride, Evelyn Miller, Brian Nelson, Paul O'Mahony, and Argyris Xafis perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Bruce King (Gallatin School of Individualized Study-NYU) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. 

For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text available at http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/sophocles/ajaxhtml.html

Scene selections:
1-71: Odysseus and Athena 
464-698: Ajax, Tecmessa, Chorus 
764-820: Ajax 
973-1034: Ajax 
1470-1740: Teucer, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Chorus 

Credits:
Athena - Anne Mason
Odysseus - Paul O'Mahony
Ajax - Tim Delap
Tecmessa - Evelyn Miller
Agamemnon - Argyris Xafis
Teucer - Brian Nelson
Chorus - Patrick Walshe McBride 

Director - Paul O'Mahony

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081

Suggested further reading and viewing:
1) Hesk, J. 2003. Sophocles: Ajax. London: Duckworth. 

2) Burian, P. 2012. "Polyphonic Ajax" in A Companion to Sophocles. Edited by K. Ormand, 68–83. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell. 

3) "Staging Ajax's Suicide," a 2013 conference at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa:
https://youtu.be/8u2Cp1RqaHg