Feature: Antigone – do we have the courage to rock the boat?
Adaptation can be a tricky thing indeed. But when it comes to re-working an ancient play – a play first written several centuries ago – and then making it work ...
Sophocles
Review: Thebes, New Diorama Theatre
Just north of Warren Street, along Euston Road, a modern business park dominates the vista. Banks, coffee shops and anonymous offices define the place in the ...
Review: Our Ajax, Southwark Playhouse
Timberlake Wertenbaker's re-working of Sophocles's tragedy places Ajax and his platoon firmly in the modern day with text messages, references to YouTube, I...
Feature: Spotlight on Joe Dixon
Following The Mummy Returns and Atlantis, and his extensive career in classical theatre, Joe Dixon now stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s latest play Our Aja...
Review: Elektra
An epic and destructive blood-soaked tour-de-force, Strauss’ Elektra is no stranger to the Royal Opera House, already seeing revivals in 2003 and 2008. Beginn...
Camden Fringe Review: Ajax
Ajax takes its title from the famed warrior of Sophocles’s fifth century Greek tragedy. Driven mad by jealousy, Ajax attempts to murder his generals but is ...