Another Stranger: Cressida’s Tale

The wind whips her hair, as she watches the soldiers go by. And a bright face is lifted towards her, full of longing. He swears she’s fair and rare as a pearl. But he doesn’t know the grit within her. For Troy must fall, and Cressida – alone; among strangers – must learn the arts of survival and transformation.

To the poets who shaped her legend, changeful Cressida was fickle, false, and heartless. But Cressida’s Tale follows her story from mythic Troy, to medieval Scotland, and an Elizabethan London seething with anti-migrant rage. On the way, it discovers Cressida as a heroine our own times: a girl with a gift for resilience and reinvention.

Content Warnings:

This performance contains descriptions of war, sexual threat, and sickness, in mythic contexts. Also references to xenophobia and violence, in the context of English history.