Film
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
- Director
- Blanche McIntyre
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 210 mins
Warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome in triumph after an extended bout of blood-letting, bearing Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three sons and “barbarous Moor” Aaron as his prisoners. Religious tradition requires a sacrifice, so the eldest son gets whacked, earning Titus the undying enmity of the warrior queen. But his first mistake is in pledging fealty to weak and effete new emperor Saturninius, who promptly falls for the charms of exotic and cunning Tamora, giving her a position of power from which to unleash the tit-for-tat revenge. Rape, cannibalism, mutilation and murder ahoy!
David Troughton takes the title role in Blanche McIntryre‘s suitably blood-drenched production, which marks her return to the RSC after directing The Two Noble Kinsman in 2016.
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