Excerpt from Peter Sellars' staging of the tragedy "Ajax", after an adaptation by Robert Auletta. The "Boy Wonder" of American theater, Peter Sellars – acclaimed and controversial - created one of the most sensational and criticized performances of 1986 with the staging of this production. In his adaptation of Sophocles' classic drama to a contemporary situation, Sellars refers to an American war in the near future and to the American intervention in Vietnam.