Sunday, May 30, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Independent Potters' Association Member Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to host this year's The Independent Potters' Association's (IPA) Member Show, an annual group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. Participating artists include Courtney Eppel, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Michael Hughes, Sookie Kayne, Tom Krahe, Christina Parker, Margery Rose, Tim See, Karen Jean Smith, Millie St. John Schmidt, Peter Valenti, Michele Walters, Rebecca Wind, and Sueji Yong.

The Independent Potters' Association was established in 2011 by a group of central New York ceramic artists to support and promote professional artists in the ceramic medium while developing resources to mentor and recognize ceramic excellence.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

CNY Young Artists Live!
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Online

Enjoy the music of the most talented young classical musicians from Central New York. Each year, the CMM Young Artists Live! concert features winners from various music competitions in the CNY region.

Facebook event

Monday, May 31, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Spring Is in the Air
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Katya Bratslavsky: colorful impasto floral paintings and jewelry made with semi-precious stone and Swarovski crystals
Carol Adamec: metal sculpture

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Spring Is in the Air
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Katya Bratslavsky: colorful impasto floral paintings and jewelry made with semi-precious stone and Swarovski crystals
Carol Adamec: metal sculpture

Alison Wahl, soprano; Vadim Serebryany, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Online

Soprano Alison Wahl and pianist Vadim Serebryany will perform a program featuring music of Rosamond Johnson, Florence Price, Libby Larsen, Rosephanye Dunn Powell, Stacy Garrop, and originals by Alison Wahl.

Watch on YouTube.

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Spring Is in the Air
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Katya Bratslavsky: colorful impasto floral paintings and jewelry made with semi-precious stone and Swarovski crystals
Carol Adamec: metal sculpture

Independent Potters' Association Member Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to host this year's The Independent Potters' Association's (IPA) Member Show, an annual group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. Participating artists include Courtney Eppel, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Michael Hughes, Sookie Kayne, Tom Krahe, Christina Parker, Margery Rose, Tim See, Karen Jean Smith, Millie St. John Schmidt, Peter Valenti, Michele Walters, Rebecca Wind, and Sueji Yong.

The Independent Potters' Association was established in 2011 by a group of central New York ceramic artists to support and promote professional artists in the ceramic medium while developing resources to mentor and recognize ceramic excellence.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Friday, June 4, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Spring Is in the Air
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Katya Bratslavsky: colorful impasto floral paintings and jewelry made with semi-precious stone and Swarovski crystals
Carol Adamec: metal sculpture

Independent Potters' Association Member Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to host this year's The Independent Potters' Association's (IPA) Member Show, an annual group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. Participating artists include Courtney Eppel, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Michael Hughes, Sookie Kayne, Tom Krahe, Christina Parker, Margery Rose, Tim See, Karen Jean Smith, Millie St. John Schmidt, Peter Valenti, Michele Walters, Rebecca Wind, and Sueji Yong.

The Independent Potters' Association was established in 2011 by a group of central New York ceramic artists to support and promote professional artists in the ceramic medium while developing resources to mentor and recognize ceramic excellence.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Poet Destiny O. Birdsong
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, essayist, and fiction writer who lives and writes in Nashville, TN. Her work has either appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Catapult, The BreakBeat Poets Presents: Black Girl Magic, and elsewhere. Destiny has won the Academy of American Poets Prize, Meridian's 2017 "Borders" Contest in Poetry, and the Richard G. Peterson Poetry Prize from Crab Orchard Review (2019). She has received support from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, MacDowell, The Ragdale Foundation, and Tin House, where she was a 2018 Summer Workshop Scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in October 2020, and her debut novel is forthcoming from Grand Central in 2022.

Register to receive Zoom link.

Troilus & Cressida
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free, pay what you will, and premium ($30) seating
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Start with the background of Homer's epic Iliad as Shakespeare puts you in the middle of the Trojan War between Greece and Troy. Because it encompasses so many genres it is the least classifiable Shakespearean play: Is it tragic? heroic? satirical? farcical? comical? or all of them rolled into one play?

Troilus and Cressida is a love story set during conflict. It is a microcosm of reality. Characters aspire to love and value it beyond measure, yet love is put aside in pursuit of survival. People feed their basic instincts over their nobler aspirations. While it is sad and tragic that love does not triumph, the play reminds us that, although we cherish certain values, at times we must put them aside in order to live.

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Spring Is in the Air
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Katya Bratslavsky: colorful impasto floral paintings and jewelry made with semi-precious stone and Swarovski crystals
Carol Adamec: metal sculpture

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Independent Potters' Association Member Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to host this year's The Independent Potters' Association's (IPA) Member Show, an annual group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. Participating artists include Courtney Eppel, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Michael Hughes, Sookie Kayne, Tom Krahe, Christina Parker, Margery Rose, Tim See, Karen Jean Smith, Millie St. John Schmidt, Peter Valenti, Michele Walters, Rebecca Wind, and Sueji Yong.

The Independent Potters' Association was established in 2011 by a group of central New York ceramic artists to support and promote professional artists in the ceramic medium while developing resources to mentor and recognize ceramic excellence.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Troilus & Cressida
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free, pay what you will, and premium ($30) seating
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Start with the background of Homer's epic Iliad as Shakespeare puts you in the middle of the Trojan War between Greece and Troy. Because it encompasses so many genres it is the least classifiable Shakespearean play: Is it tragic? heroic? satirical? farcical? comical? or all of them rolled into one play?

Troilus and Cressida is a love story set during conflict. It is a microcosm of reality. Characters aspire to love and value it beyond measure, yet love is put aside in pursuit of survival. People feed their basic instincts over their nobler aspirations. While it is sad and tragic that love does not triumph, the play reminds us that, although we cherish certain values, at times we must put them aside in order to live.

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Independent Potters' Association Member Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to host this year's The Independent Potters' Association's (IPA) Member Show, an annual group exhibition featuring ceramics created by the group's members. Participating artists include Courtney Eppel, Jen Gandee, Matt Hill, Michael Hughes, Sookie Kayne, Tom Krahe, Christina Parker, Margery Rose, Tim See, Karen Jean Smith, Millie St. John Schmidt, Peter Valenti, Michele Walters, Rebecca Wind, and Sueji Yong.

The Independent Potters' Association was established in 2011 by a group of central New York ceramic artists to support and promote professional artists in the ceramic medium while developing resources to mentor and recognize ceramic excellence.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Troilus & Cressida
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free, pay what you will, and premium ($30) seating
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Start with the background of Homer's epic Iliad as Shakespeare puts you in the middle of the Trojan War between Greece and Troy. Because it encompasses so many genres it is the least classifiable Shakespearean play: Is it tragic? heroic? satirical? farcical? comical? or all of them rolled into one play?

Troilus and Cressida is a love story set during conflict. It is a microcosm of reality. Characters aspire to love and value it beyond measure, yet love is put aside in pursuit of survival. People feed their basic instincts over their nobler aspirations. While it is sad and tragic that love does not triumph, the play reminds us that, although we cherish certain values, at times we must put them aside in order to live.