***⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** “There are no good guys.” Renowned theatremaker Lillian Groag explains why “Troilus and Cressida” is her favorite of all the plays Shakespeare ever wrote, but not without wondering out loud what happened to him along the way...  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** The lovesick Trojan prince Troilus is so consumed by his infatuation with Cressida that he refuses to fight in the endless Trojan war with the Greeks, lamenting his woes to Cressida’s uncle, Pandarus, who serves as the go-between for the lovers. Aeneas arrives with news that Troilus’s brother, Paris, has been wounded by Menalaeus in battle, persuading Troilus to rejoin the fight. Inside the Trojan Citadel, Cressida gets the gossip from her friend Alexandra before Pandarus arrives to sing Troilus’s praises. Together, Pandarus and Cressida watch the Trojan warriors return from battle. Pandarus keeps heaping praise on Troilus as Cressida remains aloof, but once alone, she confesses she’s only playing “hard to get” in order to keep Troilus interested. Meanwhile, in the Greek encampment outside Troy, the Generals Agamemnon, Nestor and Ulysses lament that the war has dragged on for years without victory. Ulysses blames it on a breakdown of hierarchy and order brought on by Achilles’ mocking their leadership, whipping the Greeks into a frenzy of anger and frustration. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TROILUS AND CRESSIDA”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by LILLIAN GROAG. All episodes were directed by KIM MARTIN COTTON. Radio play by CATHERINE EATON.   Executive Producer: MICHAEL GOODFRIEND   This podcast was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA AGREEMENT.   The cast is as follows:   BENJAMIN BONENFANT         as    TROILUS AWNI ABDI-BAHRI                       as    CRESSIDA JAMES UDOM                          as    ACHILLES GEOFFREY ALLEN MURPHY    as    AJAX STEVEN RATTAZZI                     as    PANDARUS and MENELAUS DAISUKE TSUJI                           as    THERSITES ANNA SUNDBERG                       as    ALEXANDRA, CASSANDRA and HELEN NOAH KEYISHIAN                       as    AENEAS, MARGARELON and HELENUS ROB NAGLE                                  as    AGAMEMNON LISA WOLPE                                 as    ULYSSES WAYNE T. CARR                          as    HECTOR and CALCHAS EDWARD GERO                           as    NESTOR and PRIAM EDDIE LOPEZ                               as    PATROCLUS and PARIS JOHNNY WU                                 as    DIOMEDES KIM MARTIN COTTON                as    ANDROMOCHE   Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA.   Voice and Text Coach: JULIE FOH   Original Music Composition, Mix and Sound Design by LINDSAY JONES. Sound engineering and mixing by SADAHARU YAGI. Mix Engineer and Dialogue Editor: LARRY WALSH. Podcast Mastering by GREG CORTEZ at New Monkey Studio. Coordinating Producer: TRANSCEND STREAMING (KYRA BOWIE and LEANNA KEYES).   The Play On Podcast Series “TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ” is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit NEXTCHAPTERPODCASTS.COM for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit PLAYONSHAKESPEARE.ORG for more about Play On Shakespeare.   Subscribe to Play On Premium for ad-free episodes and join our Patreon for exclusive merchandise and early commercial-free releases. Go to nextchapterpodcasts.com for our Bonus Content, where you’ll find interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. And remember: “The proud man eats himself”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS PRESENTS THE PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TROILUS AND CRESSIDA”  SHAKESPEARE’S BITING COMEDY ABOUT THE ABSURDITY OF WAR AND THE UNDERBELLY OF LOVE. AN EPIC ANTI-LOVE STORY PERFORMED BY AN ENSEMBLE OF AMERICA’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED STAGE ACTORS IN A MODERN ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION BY LILLIAN GROAG.  DIRECTED BY KIM MARTIN COTTEN RADIO PLAY BY CATHERINE EATON WITH ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION BY LINDSAY JONES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** “We Gave Everything We Had”: Actor Randall Duk Kim and Director Annie Occhiogrosso reflect on their lives as artists, creating American Players Theater, how much you can learn from studying “Hamlet” over fifty years, what it takes to be great, where to find the best audiences in the country, how strawberries and chocolate can make all the difference on Press Day, the importance of language, what Keanu Reeves reads between takes, how Laurence Fishburne found his way into “Othello”, why every actor should start a theater, being Asian on an island, how Edwin Booth, Walt Whitman and a slaughtered lamb all played a part in bringing world class productions to a town of 1,200 people in rural Wisconsin, why it’s important to plant the seeds of inspiration in young people if we want to have any hope for our future, and much, much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠⁠ *** “We Gave Everything We Had”: Actor Randall Duk Kim and Director Annie Occhiogrosso reflect on their lives as artists, creating American Players Theater, how much you can learn from studying “Hamlet” over fifty years, what it takes to be great, where to find the best audiences in the country, how strawberries and chocolate can make all the difference on Press Day, the importance of language, what Keanu Reeves reads between takes, how Laurence Fishburne found his way into “Othello”, why every actor should start a theater, being Asian on an island, how Edwin Booth, Walt Whitman and a slaughtered lamb all played a part in bringing world class productions to a town of 1,200 people in rural Wisconsin, why it’s important to plant the seeds of inspiration in young people if we want to have any hope for our future, and much, much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠⁠ *** “I fell into Shakespeare!” Historian and podcaster Cassidy Cash describes how finding a copy of a play tucked between a Bible and a hymnal in her grandmother’s house in rural Alabama led her into a life of learning about the past, the present, engineering information, painting castles, making podcasts, playing Noddy and knowing what a Link Boy was! Check out her excellent show That Shakespeare Life wherever you listen to great podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠ *** There is no Orthodoxy”: Professor Richard Burt teaches us about the paratext, un-reading Shakespeare, Derrida and Plato in under an hour! With a soothing reminder that writing is both the poison and the remedy... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly Brown may have grown up right next to Hollywood, but her life was a world away from her 90s sitcom dreams. Instead, Holly’s childhood was filled with family secrets, immense loss, and heartbreaking grief. SO. What’s a girl to do? Create a genre-bending, dark comedy podcast, of course! Welcome to… Everybody Knows But Me: A dark comedy podcast about the secrets we inherit and the stories we tell to survive Holly revisits her dark, twisty past and proves that you actually can make your life into a 90s sitcom, if you only try hard enough. Grab your beanie babies and gushers, and strap in for a story that even Mr Feeny can’t resist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “That’s what you hear with Sinatra!” Larry Walsh describes how spending 25 years re-mastering the entirety of “Ol' Blue Eyes” recordings taught him  how to tune his ear to Shakespeare. Plus, why a mix engineer will never have a sharkskin suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://quince.com/playonpod ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.***⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Complete our⁠ listener survey⁠ for a chance to win a $50 gift card!⁠ “Everybody Tells the Skinny Kid What To Do” - Sound and Mastering Engineer Larry Walsh reflects on the lifelong journey through audio that led him to Shakespeare.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices