Word: tecmessa
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...version of the Ajax is not the staging, or the confusion, or the uncomfortable missed entrances; it is that only two members of the cast have sufficient presence to command attention in spite of the Greek they are speaking. One of them, Myra Rubin (who plays both Athena and Tecmessa) even manages to come through because of it, for she has a graceful and compelling sense of metre that in itself expresses the sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both in voice and manner, and that...
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