Troilus and Cressida
Adapted from William Shakespeare by Azadeh Mohammadi
Produced by Poisoned Cherry Company & Prague Shakespeare Company
Directed by Azadeh Mohammadi
Dramaturgy by Julek Neumann

16 & 23 April and 6 May
Swan Divadelni Klub (Divadlo Kolowrat) – Limited Seating only 60 seats per performance!

350Kcz General Admission
200Kcz Student, Senior, Handicapped

With:
Master – Curtis Matthew
Narrator – Karel Heřmánek
Black – Kateřina Veckerová

Azadeh Mohammadi pursues her favourite theme: meeting of different artistic cultures. Seamlessly fusing Shakespeare’s blank verse with Persian folk storytelling, she manages to both tell the story of Troilus and Cressida and to tell her own personal view of people confronted by a war. The minimalist treatment, with only three characters of the traditional figures of the storytelling, the Master, the Narrator and Black, makes a crisp cast for her production.

It’s more than seventy years there was a major armed conflict in Europe (if we don’t speak about the one in former Yugoslavia). Azadeh lived through the Iran-Iraq war, and her personal experience affects the way she interprets this Shakespeare production.

Set and costume design Jalil Fotouhinia – Parvin Nori
Stage Manager Michal Pochna

Tickets and more information:
http://www.pragueshakespeare.com/event/troilus-and-cressida/