Ajax BY SOPHOCLES
Translator | Walter Lapini
Director | Luca Micheletti
Sets and Lighting | Nicolas Bovey
Costumes | Daniele Gelsi
in collaboration with | Elisa Balbo
Chorus Master | Davide Cavalli
Other choirmaster and conductor | Marcello Mancini
Choreography | Fabrizio Angelini
Assistant director | Benedetto Sicca
Assistant director | Francesco Martucci
Assistant set designer | Eleonora De Leo
Assistant costume designer | Andrea Grisanti
Stage manager | Giovanni Ragusa
Assistant directors | Andrea Triaca e Gianni Giuga
PLOT
The goddess Athena takes revenge on the valiant Ajax, who had superbly refused divine aid in battle, and clouds his mind. Ajax boasts that he has slaughtered the Atreides, instead he has slaughtered cattle; Odysseus feels pity for him and Athena mocks him. Soon the hero comes to his senses and realises the reality and the ridicule. Neither his sailors from Salamis, nor his concubine Tecmessa, nor the embrace of his young son deter him from committing suicide, which he accomplishes by walking away and deceiving everyone. The last part of the tragedy is an argument between the Atreides, who deny Ajax an honourable burial, and Odysseus with Teucer, who demands it and prevails. (440 b.C.)
COMING SOON
photos of the shows soon
CAST
ATENA / MESSAGGERO | Roberto Latini
ODISSEO | Daniele Salvo
AIACE | Luca Micheletti
TECMESSA| Diana Manea
TEUCRO | Tommaso Cardarelli
MENELAO | Michele Nani
AGAMENNONE | Edoardo Siravo
ATE / THANATOS | Lidia Carew
Coro di marinaio
CORIFEI| Giorgio Bongiovanni, Lorenzo Grilli, Mino Manni, Francesco Martucci
COREUTI | Giovanni Accardi, Gaetano Aiello, Ottavio Cannizzaro, Pasquale Conticelli, Giovanni Dragano, Raffaele Ficiur, Gianni Giuga, Paolo Leonardi, Marcello Mancini, Marcello Zinzani
Violoncelli | Francesco Angelico, Christian Barraco, Cecilia Costanzo
Percussioni | Giovanni Caruso
Arpa | Giuseppina Vergine
Con la partecipazione degli allievi dell’Accademia d’Arte del Dramma Antico