THEATRE & DANCE
THEATREdART presents Troilus and Cressida
November 11-November 27, 2011
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They say Shakespeare wrote the play while heartbroken, bitter, and angry. The play itself is a bitter human look at the futility of war, (a seven year siege over one pretty girl) and human relations, (love as sex and lust, not the romantic ideal). Shakespeare’s villains and heroes seem to blur into one another, and the ones who you would think should gain our sympathy, somehow remain the villain.
The play is set against the Trojan War, (a war started over an "ideal" woman, Helen of Troy, mind you). Against the backdrop of the war we find the story of Troilus and Cressida. The two are Trojans who fall in love, but quickly after being brought together by Cressida’s Uncle, Pandarus, Cressida is traded for a prisoner of war by the Greeks. Troilus travels to find Cressida, but in his absence, full of defeat, Cressida accepts the advances of another. Cressida is a woman traded like goods by her family, treated like chattel by the men in her life that profess to love her, and still SHE is the villain in the story.
The great Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon and Priam, Helen of Troy, some of the most epic historical and mythological figures have starring roles in this play, but again, Shakespeare treats them in a new light. He's been accused before of ruining these figures, Achilles is proud to a fault and has homosexual leanings, Hector is crippled to inaction by his own personal honor, Helen and Paris are spoiled, shallow, vain lovers.
We've taken this futility of war and the pointlessness of the battle and played it up, in our version Agamemnon and Priam are absent leaders, they are there but there is no direction, no point. The human version of love as opposed the romantic ideal receives a lot of focus as well.
This is the story of war and of ruined love, of human emotions, sex, crude innuendo and gore.
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$10- General Admission
$5- Student AdmissionInfo Phone: www.theatredart.org
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November 11-November 27, 2011Times:
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