Word: cressida
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...recent mushrooming of critical interest in "Troilus and Cressida" has placed it in every possible category, chiefly because its inconclusive ending prevents any sort of definitive judgment as to what kind of a play it is Bafiling crities, it has also bafiled producers. This, along with analytical rather than dramatic dialogue, has kept it almost entirely from the stage, Polonius probably gives the most accurate description: "tragical-comical-historical." But you must also add satirical, for that, too, is an important element in the current production by the Harvard Theater Workshop...
Despite the reputation the play holds in academic circles, it has never seen a professional performance on Broadway. The only New York appearance of "Troilus and Cressida" occurred 20 years ago, when Monty Wooley directed a group of Yale undergraduates in the drama of the Trojan...
Both the bride and groom were members of the cast of the Harvard Theatre Workshop's "Troilus and Cressida." Miss Laughton was scheduled to play Helen of Troy and her new husband was to be a Myrmidon in the production. Both of them had been in rehearsal for more than a month...
When the curtain goes up on the Harvard Theater Workshop's production of Troilus and Cressida next week, the most beautiful woman in Massachusetts will play the role of the most beautiful woman in the ancient world...
...officials immediately with drow the picture from the ad. Jerry Kilty '50, president of the HTW, stated that the photograph of Miss Farrand was a portrait of her as she will appear in the role of Cressida. "It is on all the posters...