August 14, 2012
Tags: obsession, Pandarus, Sigmund Freud, Troilus and Cressida, Whitman College
When I was an English major at Whitman College we used to say “a done paper is a good paper.” That wasn’t true and neither is all well that ends well. I found this to be a sour play with a depressing ending a wee bit too close to home. When it opens, we meet Read the Rest…
July 8, 2012
Tags: Balkan Trilogy, Guy Pringle, Hector, Olivia Manning, Pandarus, The Iliad, Thersites
In Olivia Manning’s wonderful Balkan Trilogy set in World War II Bucharest, Guy Pringle, most lovable of extroverts, decides to do an amateur production of Shakespeare. He chooses Troilus and Cressida. It’s so accessible to the ex-pats and legation folks that I think, well, how hard a play could it be? So here I am Read the Rest…