The Bell Shakespeare Company’s play Troilus+Cressida – Directed by Michael Bogdanov is an example of the many ‘re-skinned’ Shakespearean plays that emerge out of obscurity to challenge social mores in modern society. Troilus+Cressida, based in the 10 year “war for a whore” (Helen – played by Helen Thompson) between the citizens of Troy and the Greeks, encompasses two contrasting notions of Love and War. These combine to create a world that does away with and …showed first 75 words of 972 total…

…showed last 75 words of 972 total…from a sudden change in her life that forced her to revaluate her position in her world, and adjust for survival by attaching herself to a protector in return for the only thing she knows how to do. The play ends suddenly, at the same time fittingly, yet infuriatingly open-ended. With the words of a disease ridden Pandarus close to death, the events of the play is justified: “All’s far in Love and War”