Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax in Iraq to Premiere at Zero Arrow Theatre

Ellen McLaughlin’s new play, Ajax in Iraq, is set to premiere in the Zero Arrow Theatre at American Repertory Theatre (ART), October 9-11.

Created through a series of workshops with the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training class of 2009, McLaughlin uses Sophocles’ Ajax to view and interpret the current war, combining ancient Greece and modern-day Iraq to explore a veteran’s madness and suicide.

McLaughlin is best to known for originating the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Her plays include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, and Oedipus.

For more information, call 617-547-8300 or visit amrep.org.