Let me tell you, you haven't seen Troilus & Cressida until you've seen Cressida sing Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it!)" with all her girlfriends. But the audience actually burst into cheers when Hector (as Ella Fitzgerald) and Achilles (as Louis Armstrong) lip synched "Can't we be Friends" to each other.
If the play hadn't made us giddy with delight, the setting would have. Incredible. There we were, sitting in a tent on the lawn of the gorgeous Boscobel Estate, looking out onto the Hudson River as the sun went down and the Trojans & Greeks came charging over the hill on the horizon.
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Now that's Shakespeare as it's supposed to be performed, for sure!
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