War veteran | Ballad singer

DOMINIC BURNS

Thersites: war correspondent (Greek)

PETER GILBERT

Troilus: Prince of Troy, Priam’s youngest son

TOM McNULTY

Pandarus: Cressida’s uncle

MICK GROGAN

Aeneus: Trojan officer

PETER GILBERT

Cressida: young Trojan lady

KATHY JACKMAN

Alexander: Trojan waiter

PETER OXTOBY

Agamemnon: King of Mycenae, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces

DAMIAN BURRAS

Nestor: King of Pylos, Greek general

PETER GILBERT

Ulysses: Dame of Ithaca, Greek diplomat

CATHERINE GIBSON

Menelaus: King of Sparta, Agamemnon’s brother

ANDY FERGUSON

Lord Ajax: Greek officer

GREG ADAMS

Achilles: Greek officer

ANDREW HOWORTH

Patroclus: Achilles’ lover, a pacifist

TOM McNULTY

Priam: King of Troy

PETER GILBERT

Hector: Prince of Troy, Priam’s eldest son

PAUL CULLINGFORD

Cassandra: Priam’s daughter, a prophetess

DESPINA HADJIOANNOU

Paris: Prince of Troy, Priam’s son

PETER OXTOBY

Helen: Queen of Sparta, living with Paris in Troy

ALACOQUE MARVIN

Diomedes: Greek officer

PAUL CULLINGFORD

Agamemnon’s Quail

KATHY JACKMAN

Andromache: Hector’s wife

ALACOQUE MARVIN

Margarelon: a bastard son of Priam

GREG ADAMS

Characters unseen but talked of:

Calchas: renegade Trojan, now with the Greeks, Cressida’s father

Hecuba: Queen of Troy

Hesione: Priam’s sister, mother of Ajax

Antenor: Trojan officer, taken prisoner by the Greeks

Polyxena: Priam’s daughter, Achilles’ secret love in Troy