Titus Andronicus
Past productions
- RSC, Stratford/London
- University of Birmingham
- University of Birmingham
- University of Birmingham
- Action to the Word, C, Edinburgh
- DDOS, Sweet ECA, Edinburgh
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen, Aarhuus
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Tour
- Royal Shakespeare Company, The People’s Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Barbican Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- New Vic, Bristol
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1971 onwards)
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Tour
- The Old Vic, London
- Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
- The Old Vic, London
A play by William Shakespeare
This is ‘the study of a man who fights, for a Rome he does not understand, against a barbaric tribe he does not think worth understanding. When he allows this Rome to form an alliance with these barbarians, they take revenge on him too terrible to contemplate and yet curiously just. Titus is the victim of his own strict code and his own grandeur. In this respect, he is a universal figure and the play is a tract for our times.
No history book contains the general, the emperor, the blackamoor and the barbaric empress who dominate the play.’ (Written by R.E)
‘This play was a smash hit in its day, one of Shakespeare’s earliest successes, dating back to 1593.’
(Both the above extracts are from a 1963 original Birmingham Repertory Theatre Programme of this play.)