A native American spin on Shakespeare

CRITICISM of The Wooster Group's Shakespeare adaptation, Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida), has run the gamut from being confusing at best, to racially offensive, at worst. But as an experimental adaptation of one of Shakespeare's more convoluted (and boring, may I say) plays, Troilus and Cressida, the hodgepodge reconstruction of native American culture on stage certainly helped distract from the play itself.

Founder and play director Elizabeth LeCompte, long known for generating experimental works, adopted the native American cult…