Paul Taylor Dance Company

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (REDUCED)

Opus Number: 
124
Music: 
Amilcare Ponchielli
Costumes: 
Santo Loquasto
Lighting: 
Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed: 
April 15, 2006
Notes: 

Although based on one of Shakespeare’s bitterest plays, Troilus and Cressida (reduced) is a wickedly funny romance.

“Taylor’s funniest work to date dazzles with bright-spirited, belly-laugh humor [turning] Shakespeare’s bitter play of love and betrayal into a hoot.  At the root of his humor lies his astute observation of human nature involving romantic matters in which mere humans appear as stumbling, clueless oafs.” – Susan Broili, Durham Herald-Sun

Onstage photo: Paul B. Goode

Photos: Tom Caravaglia