Troilus and Cressida

The war has lasted seven drawn-out years. Few illusions remain about the glory of armed conflict–or anything else for that matter, including love. Caught in the chaos is a traitor’s daughter whose romance with a prince is doomed as a casualty of wartime politics. Set during the Trojan War, Shakespeare’s cynical and bitterly funny indictment of the futility of war is made more immediate in OSF’s production, placed against the backdrop of the U.S. conflict in the contemporary Middle East.