Media Archive

“In Aeschylus’ ‘Prometheus Bound’ the title character is punished for stealing fire and giving it to humans. For the playwright Steven Sater the idea of having one’s life altered by flames is intensely personal.” – The New York Times

“With its producing partner Amnesty International, Prometheus Bound is on an important mission: to galvanize audiences into realizing that oppression and torture of any kind is intolerable.” – The Arts Fuse

“‘Prometheus Bound’ rocks hard…. What makes it a rousing success is that neither rock nor theater is shunted. Touching and thought-provoking.” – EDGE Boston

In Prometheus Bound, “(Paulus) creates an immersive experience (the music helps this, too) that’s both suggestively fanciful and starkly simplified. You feel like you’re in some other world of gods and titans, but you can also just listen to a man on the stage defiantly condemning a despot.” – Weekly Dig

“Propelled by a lean script and cut-to-the-quick lyrics by Steve Sater and an angst-filled score by Serj Tankian, this world preem hits the zeitgeist jackpot.” – Variety

“Metal man Tankian writes rock score for Greek tragedy.” -The Boston Herald

“Benson has created a fascinatingly theatrical experience that skillfully blends sound and vision.  Thanks to Benson’s clear-eyed vision, the core of the story that she wants to tell comes through loud and clear.” -TAB COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS

“We first see Ajax mid-massacre, positively reveling in the bloodbath, and Benson pulls no punches, opening the nondescript mess hall to a scene of slaughterhouse gore.” -TheaterMania

“What would this look like in a society as heterogonous, and as destabilized by radical societal changes, as ours is today? Sarah Benson investigates in her innovative and often deeply moving take on  “Ajax,” by Sophocles, in a brand new translation by Charles Connaghan.” -Blast Magazine

“In ‘Ajax’ at the A.R.T., Linda Powell plays an ancient role with modern repercussions…” – The Boston Globe

“…it is not only a stellar production, but one that makes the Greek myths relevant to today’s world. You can’t do much better than this one.” – wbur.org