Our Ajax, Southwark Playhouse, London
Southwark Playhouse, London: Taking as her starting point Sophocles' Ajax, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Ajax brings old and new worlds together to interrogate the psychological cost of modern warfare. The result is an odd but undoubtedly powerful piece. Wertenbaker sometimes gets stuck within Sophocles' anachronistic framework but - incorporating interviews with retired servicemen and women - she also …