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
A Messenger | Colin Pinney |
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Aaron, a wicked Moor | Derek Jacobi |
Alarbus, Tamora’s son | Leroy Lingwood |
Bassianus, brother of Saturninus | Roy Patrick |
Chiron, Tamora’s’ son | William Ingram |
Clown | Peter Miles
(credited as Peter Miles-Johnson) |
Demetrius, Tamora’s son | Philip Voss |
Emilius, Tribune of the People | Ralph Nossek |
Gothic Captain | Colin Pinney |
Lavinia, Titus’ daughter | Leslie Nunnerley |
Lucius, Titus’ son | Robert Robinson |
Marcus Andronicus, Titus’ brother, Tribune of the People | Arthur Pentelow |
Martius, Titus’ son | Michael Latimer |
Mutius, Titus’ son | Frank Ellis |
Nurse | Elspeth Duxbury |
Publius, Titus’ servant | Ronald Harvi |
Quintus, Titus’ son | Michael May |
Roman, Goth | Loraine Baxter |
Roman, Goth | Michael Brown |
Roman, Goth | Peter Dennis |
Roman, Goth | Melvin Martin |
Roman, Goth | Peter Price |
Roman, Goth | Martin Shardlow |
Roman, Goth | Keith Williams |
Saturninus, elder son of late Emperor of Rome | Paul Carson |
Sempronius, a Senator | Terence Greenidge |
Tamora, Queen of the Goths | Georgine Anderson |
Titus Andronicus, a Roman General | Desmond Gill |
Young Lucius, son of Lucius | Peter Corey
(credited as Peter Cook) |
Crew | |
Designer – Costumes | Diana Dewes |
Designer – Sets | Finlay James |
Director | Ronald Eyre |
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- Last modified by JMA Price.
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