Word: tamoraã
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...amputated Lavinia in “Titus Andronicus,” my appreciation for the scene’s aesthetics conflicted with my revulsion at the violence. It wasn’t a long battle. Lavinia’s over-dramatic helplessness soon led me to silently echo Tamora??s (Cecilia I. Soler ’08) moan of impatience with Lavinia’s interminable groveling...
Both John Kuntz and Paul Melendy, playing Tamora and Lavinia respectively, carry their female roles with flawless commitment and respectability. In the first 15 minutes of the play, it may be a bit difficult to ignore the fact that a man is in Tamora??s white satin dress and allow his character to take over. By the end, however, the performance is so enthralling that it is difficult even to notice the discrepancy in the actors’ genders...
Indeed, the play wastes little time in settling on its basic narrative unit of barbarity and misfortune: It barely gets started before Titus, a Roman army general, commands that the Goth queen Tamora??s eldest son be sacrificed to the memory of Titus’ own dead sons (all 21 of them). Quickly following this incident, Titus cuts down one of his few remaining sons, in a perhaps extreme display of patriarchal authority. And so we proceed, until the play’s infamously bizarre ending. Suffice it to say that there are lots of deaths, and none...
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