Troilus and Cressida
Release Date: March 2025
“Take but degree away: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
And make a sop of all this solid globe.”
We present an under-the-sea puppet adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida performed and voiced by local community-based artists. We’ll record our performances Fall 2024 and present it to the community in Spring 2025.
“There my hopes lie drown’d,
Reply not in how many fathoms deep
They lie indrench’d. ”
Shakespeare’s unconventional play intrigues and perplexes while positing questions of cynism versus optimism and human inaction versus action. When placed through the lens of current ecological crises worldwide, Troilus and Cressida takes on an even more significant and urgent message.
“When the planets
In evil mixture to disorder wander,
What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!
What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!
Commotion in the winds!”
“Waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy.”