Word: troilus
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...show that you should necessarily bring your ultraconservative parents or grandparents to, Hostetler's creative interpretation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida certainly makes a bold statement, although the gratuitus and raucous sex, drugs and profanity certainly do not bode well for what the world will be like if we were to ever survive the apocalyse and find each other again in some sort of groovy rave...
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...Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...
...stage could have very easily been misleading, confusing and distracting, the clean acting, excellent technical direction, and the finer details left up to the director, Hostetler, cast this production into a field high above the rest. James Carmichael '01 returns to the stage in the beautifully interpreted role of Troilus. Although occassionally distracted by the moaning sex in the background or the raving pole dancers swinging from the pseudo-club stage, Carmichael's impeccable performance ensures that Shakespeare's true sentiment was not lost in the flashing lights and glow sticks...
...heart-wrenching performance of the secret love between Troilus and Cressida (Jamie Smith '02) is also quite skillfully performed. One can almost feel the tense emotion between the two torn lovers who are forced to separate as they bid adeiu with a sweet, gentle farewell kiss...