Troilus and Cressida
Performance Dates TBA
“Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”
Open Auditions: TBA
Performances: TBA
“In Troy there lies the scene,” Shakespeare wrote to open his tale set amidst epic battles, prophecies of doom, and bottomless pits of pride. However, we explore Troy not as a place, but as an allegory for a condition that repeats itself throughout human history.
“What’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion.”
Every Troy has its Cassandra. How can we find ours? How can we give her the audience mythology she never found in mythology?
OrangeMite will undertakes this exciting and underperformed text, exploring and envisioning the legendary characters in a verdant, but fading, fantastical world.
From the York Dispatch, York, PA, 15 June 1911.
“Nature craves
All dues be render’d to their owners.”
This defiant study of time and human nature challenges the concept of genre from its earliest moment until today. 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!”