Caption: The title couple in Troilus and Cressida includes the love and lust struck Trojan (Hugo Salazar) and the equally love struck but wandering Cressida (Stephanie Jones)
Shakespeare returns to library on July 25
What would happen if Romeo and Juliet had lived? Would their love have endured?
William Shakespeare sought to answer these questions with another couple in his dark comedy, Troilus and Cressida, to be presented by the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey at te Stratford Library, July 25 at 2 p.m.
Set during the Trojan War, Troilus (Hugo Salazar), a prince of Troy is passionately in love with the beautiful and mature minded Cressida (Stephanie Jones). As an encounter brokered by father figure uncle Pandar (Stephen Bidwell), the two soon are torn apart by the ongoing war with the Greeks. Though each swears devotion to the other the course of their love doesn’t run as smoothly as expected.
Troilus and Cressida is the second of three scheduled productions by the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey at the Stratford Library this summer. The Merry Wives of Windsor is slated for August 22.
Shows are open to the public free of charge . Weather permitting, performances are staged in the library’s outdoor amphitheater and patrons may arrive with picnics, lawn chairs and blankets. In the event of rain , plays are produced in the Lovell Room.
Additional information is available at 203-385-4162 or stratfordlibrary.org
