What the achievement asks
Take part in all five Theater Troupe plays. Five points, account-wide.
The five, in the order they run
| Order | Play |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Rivals |
| 2 | The Wanderer |
| 3 | Forget Me Not |
| 4 | The Cruelty of Dornic |
| 5 | The Thraegar's Descent |
The plays run on the hour, and they cycle in exactly the order above, which is also the order the achievement lists them in. That is the whole planning problem solved: if you know which one is up now, you know which one is up in three hours.
So if you are missing The Cruelty of Dornic and Forget Me Not is playing, come back in two hours rather than checking every hour.
The map tooltip is not reliable
Hovering the theatre on the map shows the play it thinks is next, and players report that being wrong more often than not, frequently defaulting to The Cruelty of Dornic whatever it said before.
Trust the cycle order above rather than the tooltip. If you turn up and it is the wrong play, take part anyway: you lose nothing and you now know exactly where you are in the rotation.
Getting in
The theatre is The Proscenium in Dornogal. You need renown 3 with the Council of Dornogal before you can perform with the troupe at all, which is the same gate as A Star of Dorn in the same branch.
Participation is what counts. You do not need to perform well, and there is nothing to fail.
The Cruelty of Dornic has a history of a stuck titan that had to be dragged through a portal, and some players report missing credit for The Rivals. Both are reported as fixed, and both resolved on a later attempt for the people who hit them, so a play that does not tick is worth simply repeating on its next turn in the cycle.
Where it fits
One of the pieces of You Xal Not Pass, which rewards the Shadow of Doubt mount and is part of Worldsoul-Searching, the War Within meta.