Troilus and Cressida, Riverside Studios, London
This collaboration between the RSC and New York's experimental Wooster Group got badly mauled when it was unveiled in Stratford a month ago. Approaching it for the first time during this short London run at the Riverside Studios, I'd hoped that I'd be able to find reasons for declaring it unjustly maligned. I had, after all, flagged up this version of Shakespeare's systematically cynical and anti-heroic take on t…