Troilus and Cressida

Play :: show/work:S5352, production/tour:T0395074618

Archive Listings

28 Nov 96 to 25 Mar 97	Troilus and Cressida Play :: listing:L1107183121, production:T0395074618, show:S5352, venue: V371	Barbican Centre West End Greater London
18 Jul 96 to 4 Oct 96	Troilus and Cressida Play :: listing:L1662113711, production:T0395074618, show:S5352, venue: V135	Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire

Details

Written around 1601 the play is set in Troy and the Greek camp outside the walls during the great siege. Trolius loves Cressida, daughter of a Trojan priest who has defected. The siege goes on all around with tales of Ajax and Achilles but no real progress. Troilus and Cressida are parted when Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner and we leave the siege still as fruitless as ever.
Performers Joseph Fiennes, Victoria Hamilton, Richard McCabe. Author Shakespeare. Company Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Director Ian Judge.