Titus Andronicus
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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.)
Cast & Crew
Cast
Aaron | Peter Polycarpou |
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Aemilius | Dennis Clinton |
Alarbus | Steven Elliott |
Bassianus | Mike Dowling |
Caius | Linus Roache |
Chiron | Richard McCabe |
Clown | Mike Dowling |
Demetrius | Piers Ibbotson |
First Goth Soldier | Richard Leaf |
Fourth Goth Soldier | Mike Dowling |
Lavinia | Sonia Ritter |
Lucius | Derek Hutchinson |
Marcus Andronicus | Donald Sumpter |
Martius | Linus Roache |
Messenger | Steven Elliott |
Mutius | Patrick Cremin |
Nurse | Emma Hitching |
Publius | Richard Leaf |
Quintus | Ian Bailey |
Saturninus | Jim Hooper |
Second Goth Soldier | Steven Elliott |
Sempronius | Steven Elliott |
Tamora | Estelle Kohler |
Third Goth Soldier | Patrick Cremin |
Titus Andronicus | Brian Cox |
Valentine | Ian Bailey |
Young Lucius | Jeremy Gilley |
Crew | |
Designer | Isabella Bywater |
Director | Deborah Warner |
Light Designer | Wayne Dowdeswell |
Music by | Guy Woolfenden |
Playwright | William Shakespeare |
- Source: RSC Performance Database
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