Troilus and Cressida

Alternative title: The Shakespeare Plays
Synopsis: Television production with Anton Lesser as Troilus and Suzanne Burden as Cressida. Blind artist Jack Birkett aka The Incredible Orlando (who also played Caliban in Derek Jarman THE TEMPEST) as Thersites.
Series: BBC Television Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 28 Jul 1981
Transmission details: 7 Nov 1981 at 20:40 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 180 mins

Notes: The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
History: This production was part of the fourth season (producer: Jonathan Miller). It was recorded in nine days.
Textual information: Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers.
Reviews: Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

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Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/22128 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)

Anton Lesser	Troilus
Suzanne Burden	Cressida
Jack Birkett	Thersites
Charles Gray	Pandarus
Benjamin Whitrow	Ulysses
Ann Pennington	Helen
Anthony Pedley	Ajax
Bernard Brown	Menelaus
Cornelius Garrett	Margarelon (Margareton)
David Firth	Paris
David Kinsey	Servant (attending on Paris)
Elayne Sharling	Cassandra
Esmond Knight	Priam, King of Troy
Geoffrey Chater	Nestor
John Shrapnel	Hector
Kenneth Haigh	Achilles
Max Harvey	Alexander
Merelina Kendall	Andromache
Paul Moriarty	Diomedes
Peter J. Cassell	Deiphobus
Peter Walmsley	Servant to Troilus (Boy (Troilus’ servant))
Peter Whitbread	Calchas
Simon Cutter	Patroclus
Tony Portacio	Helenus
Tony Steedman	Aeneas
Vernon Dobtcheff	Agamemnon

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