Troilus and Cressida

Perhaps one reason that there is no new writing in the 2025 Globe summer season is that there was actually a Shakespeare play lined up in the ‘we know you’re unfamiliar with this play but please hear us out’ category. Not performed at this address since 2009 (bar a touring Maori production that played as part of 2012’s Globe to Globe Festival) and not seen elsewhere in London for over a decade, Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare’s extremely odd Trojan War drama that essentially combines a big chunk of the plot of the Illiad with a weirdy love story between the Trojan title characters that is basically just a subplot. RSC veteran Owen Horsley directs, in his Globe debut