Troilus and Cressida

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 overtly homoerotic production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed by Ian Judge with Joseph Fiennes as Troilus and Victoria Hamilton as Cressida.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 25 Jun 1996
Duration: 180 mins

History: Press night 24 July 1996
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Luscombe, Christopher RSC Magazine Summer 1998, pp20-21.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Joseph Fiennes	Troilus
Victoria Hamilton	Cressida
Richard McCabe	Thersites
Clive Francis	Pandarus
Philip Voss	Ulysses
Adrian Schiller	Servant (attending on Paris)
Alisdair Simpson	Helenus
Arthur Cox	Nestor
Colin Farrell	Menelaus
David Fahm	Servant (attending on Diomedes)
David Pullan	Aeneas
Edward De Souza	Agamemnon
Griffith Jones	Priam, King of Troy
Jeremy Sheffield	Patroclus
Katia Caballero	Helen
Louis Hilyer	Hector
Mark Gillis	Deiphobus
Martina Laird	Andromache
Paul Ritter	Alexander
Philip Quast	Achilles
Ray Fearon	Paris
Raymond Bowers	Calchas
Richard Dillane	Diomedes
Ross O’Hennessy	Ajax
Sarah Weymouth	Cassandra
Simon Westwood	Antenor
Stephen Billington	Margareton

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