Today’s Date: July 18

 

Show Title: Troilus and Cressida

Director: Mili Konceliik

Assistant Directors: Marielle Buxbaum and Austen Bell

Stage Manager: Amy Hartt

Dramaturg: A H. Poma

What we did

Today was a rowdy and boisterous day. We were laughing constantly at all the opportunities we found because of the discoveries that the campers were making with the play’s blurry genre. We began by talking about out how much we enjoyed Macbeth last night and then analyze what we enjoyed about it. Overall, we loved the underscoring and how the intensity stayed high then discussed what we can take to include in our own performance. Once we finished talking we began to work through the first half of the play. Adjustments were made to the prologue so everyone knew exactly what they were doing, then quickly moving forward.

Quick and Quotable

  • From the Play
    • “This shall I undertake, and tis a burden / which I am proud to. bear.” – Diomedes

This is Diomedes accepting the “burden” of going into Troy and trading the prisoner Anthenor for Cressida.

  • From the Director
    • “See what we can do without her!” – Mili, talking about Joan
    • “Maybe the youth are ok.” – Austen
    • “It should be a scale of zero to you” – Mili about Zephyr
  • From the Cast
    • “She’s been through worse” – Max
    • “Oh my god they were roommates” – the entire cast in unison
    • “I wish he’d steal my wife” – Willow about Paris
    • “Ohhhh Oedipus!” – Max

Production Insights 

Today, so many discoveries were made. This play is so funny, and it has been funny before, but they made those moments hilarious and made other moments funny. One big scene, where Cressida enters the Greek Camp, we have worked on being icky and they made themselves disgusting. The moments that we worked had improved massively, they are all different actors from when they began, and they found new moments to work for themselves.