<h1>Troilus & Cressida - by William Shakespeare - Act 1</h1><h3>(Prologue + Scenes 1.1 to 3.2 in the standard text)</h3><p><br></p><p>Ostensibly, the action takes place at Ilium, the Trojan citadel, and in the Greek military encampment beyond the city walls during the Trojan war (c1300 BCE), a war about which few hard facts are positively known, but of which stories survive in myth and legend.</p><br><p>However, Shakespeare seems to have imagined the events as part of a conflict of his own day, and in this production they may be imagined as taking place in a theatre of war at almost any time since then, especially between the start of the First World War in 1914 CE and the present day.</p><br><p>Act 1 includes our Prologue and our Director's adaption of Shakespeare's Scenes 1.1 to 3.2 in the standard text.</p><br><p>For further details including a Plot Summary and a downloadable Programme, please visit our website <a href="https://www.worldstage21.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.WorldStage21.uk</a></p><br><p>Thanks for listening!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
