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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...
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...
...Greek tragedy. But unlike the Greek plays, Titus Andronicus provides no pity, terror or catharsis. The characters are slain with the casual impersonality of gangsters being picked off by hit men. Among the players, Hutt's Titus grows in stature as the bereaved father, and Galloway's Tamora is a one-woman "wilderness of tigers." Devoid of a moral center, Titus Andronicus nonetheless exerts a perverse fascination, for it glows with the phosphorescence of evil...
Female Support: Nancy Curtis, as the Housekeeper in "Doctor's Dilemma"; Abigail Sugarman, as Tamora in "Titus...