Word: saturninus
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Jack E. Fishburn ’08 plays Titus, a Roman general, who returns from war to find that the Roman people have elected him as their new emperor. He nobly relinquishes his throne to Saturninus (John Greene), the late emperor’s eldest son. Saturninus accepts and takes Tamora, Queen of the Goths, as his Empress. In her new position of power, Tamora wreaks bloody revenge on Titus, who killed her eldest son, and his entire family...
...play so fraught with emotion and violence requires delicacy and nuance, and at times the drama is overdone. Saturninus is convincingly lecherous, and he stuns with the loud, boisterous delivery of his first lines. But when he continues to speak in this manner through the rest of the over-two-hour-long play, he begins to seem more like a ranting bore than a volatile emperor...
...20th century and into 1st century Rome. Hence, the action will take place in both ages. Imperial warriors, caked with the dust of conquest, tramp through the Coliseum like bulky action figures. Their leader Titus (Hopkins) is a straight-spoken military man of the past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through Rome in an open limo with a bubble top, seizing and betraying Titus' daughter Lavinia (Fraser). Tattoos abound, on the royal Goth captives led by Tamora (Lange) and on the Moor Aaron (Lennix). A big band plays...
...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...
...Saturninus appropriates Tamora (Pat Galloway), Queen of the Goths, for his empress. A Lady Macbeth-to-be, Tamora seethes with ambition and an acrid hatred of Titus, who had her eldest son killed in a ritual sacrifice. When she takes Aaron (Errol Slue), a Moor, for her lover, the carnage begins. Despite his color, Aaron is Iago's twin in his motiveless malignity. He plots to have Titus' daughter Lavinia (Goldie Semple) raped, and her hands cut off and her tongue ripped out. Then the heads of two of Titus' murdered sons are unshrouded before the father...