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THIS WEEKEND Harvard gets yet another opportunity to indulge in a masochistic bout of Shakespearean tragedy, this time via Ben Evett's new production of Trothis and Cressida Creatively staged and deftly directed. Evett's production is as successful as any rendition of a largely uninteresting and confused story...
...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...
...less amusing is Lawrence as Cressida's tenderhearted uncle Pandarus. Decked out in bright yellow and peacock green, Lawrence looks a little like a wayward hairdresser from Soho. Twittering about to arrange a meeting between his niece and her enamorata. Pandarus is the quintessmal old fuss budget. While Ulysses gets the most elegant lines in the piece Pandarus gets enough good comic material to read for the role of a Green Johnny Carson. Blunt to the point of abrasiveness. Pandarus urges the lovers to abandon useless talk and move into more substantial endeavors once they have made each other...
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