Word: troilus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard II, Troilus and Cressida, Savage Love and Blood Wedding, among others. "I've gained a lot of range and diversity, a confidence and ease," she says...
...story of two helpless lovers caught in the crossfire of the Trojan war, Troilus and Cressida is neither one of Shakespeare's most popular pays nor one of his best written. Skipping over the Judgement of Paris and the tale of the wooden horse--two eminently more interesting anecdotes from the Trojan War--Shakespeare begins his story seven years into the conflict when armed engagement has reached a standstill. Both armies entrench while their respective leaders reconsider their strategies. Ulysses (Adam Smith Albion), a sort of Greek Henry Kissinger, formulates a plan which will serve the dual purpose of reanimating...
...Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...
These three magnificent performances plus Evett's masterful handling of the ensemble cast more than compensate for any potential minuses in the production such as its length (three hours with a ten minute intermission), and the unsatisfactory nature of the love story. Shamefully underattended last Thursday night, Troilus and Cressida merits three full houses this coming weekend...
...Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer...