Troilus & Cressida - by William Shakespeare - Act 1

(Prologue + Scenes 1.1 to 3.2 in the standard text)

Ostensibly, the action takes place at Ilium, the Trojan citadel, and in the Greek military encampment beyond the city walls during the Trojan war (c1300 BCE), a war about which few hard facts are positively known, but of which stories survive in myth and legend.

However, Shakespeare seems to have imagined the events as part of a conflict of his own day, and in this production they may be imagined as taking place in a theatre of war at almost any time since then, especially between the start of the First World War in 1914 CE and the present day.

Act 1 includes our Prologue and our Director's adaption of Shakespeare's Scenes 1.1 to 3.2 in the standard text.

For further details including a Plot Summary and a downloadable Programme, please visit our website www.WorldStage21.uk

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