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Source: The Philadelphia InquirerSept.文件倉 07--Insanity was contagious at Ajax, the madness by the experimental Attis Theatre from Greece, which adapted in maddening fashion Sophocles' play about the bewitched warrior who slaughters animals, believing they're his human enemies.Such delusions are induced by the gods, making Ajax a manipulated fighting machine.Director Theodoros Terzopoulos zeroed in on the play's violent kernel, the slaughter scenes, with purposeful repetition guided by minimalist aesthetics -- taking a sliver of material and mining it relentlessly.Ajax isn't meant to be enjoyable, but this version was time best spent by theater professionals in the audience, some of whom had attended acting workshops Attis held this week at the Wilma Theater, which copresented the production.During the prologue, one admired the physical stamina of the three shirtless actors -- Tasos Dimas, Savvas Stroumpos, and Meletis Ilias -- who maintained laughter (from giggles to maniacal cackles) throughout the utterly static first 15 minutes. But to what end? We know Ajax is mad. The laughter suggested the actors were unhinged. And the audience could have felt similarly crazy by the end.The story was related存倉rather than enacted, the same section told three times by each of the actors, one with knives, one with meat cleavers, and the third with red stiletto heels. In effect, the play's moments of maximum action unfolded with minimum movement.Nothing was casual here. Even the rips in the actors' trousers revealed a blood-red lining. The performance ended with the Pink Floyd song "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert," a protest of modern military invasion only roughly analogous to the Ajax section played here.By that time, the production had failed to create the cumulative tension it seemed to be after. As in the similarly repetitive stage works of composer Salvatore Sciarrino, this seemed more about obsession than artistic vision. I was left desensitized to the horrors of Ajax in ways that made the state of the world seem more hopeless, and my own role in it even more ineffective. Thanks a lot, guys.Contact David Patrick Stearns at dstearns@phillynews.com.8 p.m. Saturday at the Wilma Theater, 266 S. Broad St. Tickets: $20-$35. 215-413-1318 or fringearts.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at .philly.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉