June 2017
Troilus and Cressida
Two armies, two lovers, two hours! With this production, audiences discovered what William Shakespeare could do with the story of ancient Troy. Troilus and Cressida is essentially Homeric fan fiction from Shakespeare’s pen. The play includes a love story surrounded by a siege, battles, and the famous final showdown between Achilles and Hector.
Cressida (Becca Musser, in her farewell Austin theatre performance) is in love with Troilus, son of the king, but she can’t tell him. Then her uncle Pandarus makes a plan to bring them together. All seems to be going well until the war gets in the way.
Director Deb Streusand says, “Troilus and Cressida is extremely relevant to the modern day, dealing with the abuse of power, the horrors of war, and the way that social problems and beliefs affect people’s ability to be happy.”
Streusand has directed Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale for Something for Nothing, as well as Shakespeare’s Tempest and George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale at Mary Baldwin College, where she received her MFA with a focus on directing. She has also served as dramaturg for Something for Nothing’s productions of Hamlet and Henry the Fourth Part One.
Full cast:
Becca Musser: Cressida, Prologue, Paris' Boy
Joseph Clingan: Troilus, Menelaus
Andy Bond: Pandarus
Robert Deike: Ulysses
Taylor Flanagan: Thersites
John Anthony Gonzalez: Hector, Calchas
Kevin Moxley: Paris, Nestor
Nell McKeown: Ajax, Andromache
Sanjay Rao: Achilles, Alexander
David Boss: Agamemnon, Priam
Jonathan Vineyard: Patroclus
Corinna Browning: Helen, Aeneas
Nathan Daniel Ford: Diomedes, Bastard
Mary Amelia Beyer: Cassandra, Boy
Director: Deb Streusand
Costume Designer: Lindsay McKenna
Lighting Designer: Zac Crofford
Cressida (Becca Musser, in her farewell Austin theatre performance) is in love with Troilus, son of the king, but she can’t tell him. Then her uncle Pandarus makes a plan to bring them together. All seems to be going well until the war gets in the way.
Director Deb Streusand says, “Troilus and Cressida is extremely relevant to the modern day, dealing with the abuse of power, the horrors of war, and the way that social problems and beliefs affect people’s ability to be happy.”
Streusand has directed Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale for Something for Nothing, as well as Shakespeare’s Tempest and George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale at Mary Baldwin College, where she received her MFA with a focus on directing. She has also served as dramaturg for Something for Nothing’s productions of Hamlet and Henry the Fourth Part One.
Full cast:
Becca Musser: Cressida, Prologue, Paris' Boy
Joseph Clingan: Troilus, Menelaus
Andy Bond: Pandarus
Robert Deike: Ulysses
Taylor Flanagan: Thersites
John Anthony Gonzalez: Hector, Calchas
Kevin Moxley: Paris, Nestor
Nell McKeown: Ajax, Andromache
Sanjay Rao: Achilles, Alexander
David Boss: Agamemnon, Priam
Jonathan Vineyard: Patroclus
Corinna Browning: Helen, Aeneas
Nathan Daniel Ford: Diomedes, Bastard
Mary Amelia Beyer: Cassandra, Boy
Director: Deb Streusand
Costume Designer: Lindsay McKenna
Lighting Designer: Zac Crofford
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