Word: troilus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-Five Mount Holyoke girls will make the long trek from South Hadley this evening just to see the Harvard Theater Workshop's production of Troilus and Crossida...
...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...
...clear definition of each of the three important characters avoids the ambiguity which prevails in the Greek camp, and in the attitude toward war. Jan Farrand is gorgeous, graceful, and convincing as a Cressida who wants to be faithful but simply cannot say no. Bryant Haliday plays a tragic Troilus with maturity and restraint. His statement of utter despair when his world collapses about him is impassioned, but unexaggerated...
Next Wednesday will be ladies night at Brattle Hall. The Harvard Theatre Workshop has announced that Radcliffe students can purchase tickets to Troilus and Cressida at special rates for that evening...
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...