Word: andronicus
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...revenge melodrama that makes Hamlet pale in comparision. Set in ancient Rome, it traces the conflict between returning military hero Titus Andronicus (Padriac O'Reilly '98) and the late Emperor's son, Saturninus (Henry Clarke '00), to whom Titus cedes the throne. Trouble arises when Saturninus marries Tamora (Danielle Sherrod), Queen of the subjugated Goths, after being turned down by Titus' daughter, Lavinia, who instead marries Saturninus' younger brother Bassianus (Jesse Conrad '00). For Tamora bears a grudge against Titus and his sons for executing her own eldest son and is determined to seek vengeance. Various complications, and a great...
...Titus Andronicus is a particularly sympathetic character, and the actors don't make the mistake of trying to win sympathy. Nor do they strive for the kind of perfect diction and modulation one normally expects from performance of Shakespeare. Instead, they play up the wild distortions, creating a melange of half-bestial, half-diabolical passions. As the two unredeemable villains of the play, Demitrius and Chiron, Kelly Keough and Chuck O'Toole '97 are costumed and made up to resemble a cross between macabre spirits and S&M partygoers--an image reinforced, perhaps overdone, by slinking movements and exaggerated gestures...
...raunchy streak in civilization runs deep and long into the past. More teenage boys might be attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...
...Titus Andronicus. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Hans Canosa. Produced by Emily Brodsky. Shakespeare's horror flick: Titus Returns. A carnival of decay. Loeb Ex, 7:30 p.m. Free...
...December "Currents" will go behind the scenes of a Loeb Experimental Theater production of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" and feature interviews with organizers of the first Eliot House Art Gallery...