Titus Andronicus

Past productions

RSC, Stratford/London 2017 – 2018.
University of Birmingham 11^th March 2010.
University of Birmingham 9^th March 2010.
University of Birmingham 8^th March 2010.
Action to the Word, C, Edinburgh 30^th July – 26^th August 2008.
DDOS, Sweet ECA, Edinburgh 2^nd – 9^th August 2008.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 15^th (press night) – 24^th June 2006.
Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Globe, London 2006.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne 2^nd (press night) – 6^th December 2003.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 23^rd September (press night) – 7^th November 2003.
National Theatre, London 1994 – 1995.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen, Aarhuus January – April 1989.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, London 4^th July 1988 (press night).
Royal Shakespeare Company, Tour 9^th March (press night) – 14^th April 1988.
Royal Shakespeare Company, The People’s Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 22^nd February (press night) – 12^th March 1988.
Barbican Theatre, London 1987 – 1988.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 12^th May 1987 (press night).
Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne 23^rd March 1982 (press night).
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon 1981 – 1982.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 3^rd September 1981 (press night).
New Vic, Bristol 1977 – 1978.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London 24^th October 1973 (press night).
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon 1972 – 1973.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 12^th October 1972 (press night).
Birmingham Repertory Theatre 12^th March – 20^th April 1963.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Tour 15^th May 1957 (press night).
The Old Vic, London 1956 – 1957.
Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 16^th August 1955 (press night).
The Old Vic, London 1923 – 1924.

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.)

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