Troilus and Cressida 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company

Troilus and Cressida; Director, Howard Davies; Designer, Ralph Koltai; Photographer, Donald Cooper (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts); Royal Shakespeare Company, June 1985.

"Ralph Koltai's beautiful baroque ruin - grey speckled like a grotesque vulture's egg and hung with rotting canvasses and the spectral drapes of Brobdignagian removal men - serves as a war room and battleground for Greeks and Trojans alike. The two sides are discernable by the rusty red hussar trappings for the Trojans and Confederate grey for the Greeks." Ros Asquith, Observer 30.6.85. Opening Date: 25 June 1985. Theatre: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The effect of this staging was to suggest a plausible modern analogue to the Trojan War, such as the Crimean War. HMR