Cressida
by Nicholas Wright
Tuesday 27th October- Saturday 31st October
Tuesday 3rd November- Saturday 7th November 2009
Performances start 19:45
John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedily glamorous back-stage world of London theatre in the 1630s. Women are not seen on stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys.
Up to his eyes in debt, Shanks pins his hopes on training an
unpromising 14 year old to be the new star of the London stage. With characters drawn from life, “Cressida” is funny and savage by turns, and has about it the authentic smell of grease paint.
