Lust poses simply because love and ambition mainly because patriotism in this dark and brilliant play depicting the heroic action from the Trojan War.

Troy is besieged by the invading Greeks, however the young Trojan prince Troilus may think just of his like for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus provides the two collectively, but after only one night information comes that Cressida should be delivered to the foe camp. There, as Troilus appears on, she yields to the wooing from the Greek Diomedes. The tragic tale is undercut from the commentary of Thersites, who offers a cynical chorus.

“David Troughton as the witty Thersites and Ben Martin as the brutish Ajax both help carry from the more memorable scenes with this play…some remarkable poetry.”—AudioFile