Word: tamora
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...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...
...Gibson’s in the 1991 film adaptation of Hamlet. Simon J. Williams ’09 is perhaps the most versatile among the cast as Titus‘s brother Marcus: alternately passionate and level-headed in his grief, and touchingly tender toward his mangled niece. As Tamora, Soler is every inch the vengeful hussy. Rapists Demetrius and Chiron (Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 and Daniel R. Pecci ’09) are chillingly rambunctious and buffoonish in their cruelty. There is a particularly searing moment when they execute Lavinia’s rape scene...
...mean, he’s old now, but definitely in his prime he’d destroy Russell Crowe.Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 RR: So who do you play in “Titus Andronicus”?JVM: I play Demetrius, who is the son of Tamora, Queen of the Goths.RR: What’s his role in the story?JVM: I have a brother named Chiron, and the two of us go and essentially rape Lavinia. We cut off her arms and we cut out her tongue. We are essentially the antagonists of the play.RR...
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...
...central motivations of most of the other characters, with the notable exception of Aaron the Moor (Harry Lennix), are more obvious. Tamora is (and is repeatedly represented as) a lioness, bestial in her pursuit of pleasure and fiercely protective of her young. Saturnius, the young emperor foppishly and petulantly embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...