I’m performing in a few weeks in an unusual production of Troilus and Cressida. I need to learn my lines, which I do in short bursts while riding the train to and from work. I needed to write a postcard and also learn my lines, so I did both at the same time.
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| sent from: London, UK. destination: Jersey City, NJ, USA |
Running lines for Troilus and Cressida:
Is this great Agammemnon’s tent I pray you may one that is a herald and a prince do a fair message to his kingly ears I ask that I might waken reverence and bid the cheek be ready with a blush which is that god in office guiding men which is the high and mighty Agammemnon courtiers as free as debonair unarmed that’s their fame in peace but when they would seem soldiers they have galls good arms strong joints true swords and Joves accord by peace Aeneas Ay Greek thats my name sir pardon tis for Agammemnons ears nor I from Troy come not to whisper him I bring a trumpet to awake his ear we have great Agammemnon here in Troy a prince called Hector Priam is his father who in this dull and long continued truce is rusty grown he bade me take a trumpet and to this purpose speak Kings Princes Lords if there be one among the fairest of Greece who holds his honour higher than his ease who seeks his praise more than he fears his peril who knows his valour and knows not his fear…