This is a tour=de-force, and I do not say that lightly. An extraordinary play with an extraordinary actor giving a remarkable performance.
The stage set looks like a warehouse in process of being cleaned up – random industrial items, ladders in many areas, some leading to shelves that become stages. Technically, Bruce Cromer’s performance is amazing. The leaps from a close up view of Troy, inside with the Trojans and Hector, and outside with the Greeks and Achilles – to a wider world view, or a commentary from our modern era. The memorization of long lists – of the Greek boats drawn up on Troy’s shores, and the number of men each carried, the list of all the wars in our planet’s sad history.
The shifts in seconds from being Hector to being Achilles during that great death scene. The shift from a scream of death to quieter commentary.
This is theater that transports us, takes our minds, hearts and guts / bellies to new places, leaves us with new cells and new ideas in our bodies. This is powerful.