Word: titusã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...that the curtain has fallen on Titus??€™ and buck’s theatrical runs, Harvard’s Puritans can breathe a sigh of relief. For the rest of us, it’s back to the video store...
...Rattey ’02, who is so touching as Lavinia, that one wishes her hands and tongue might not have been removed and that she could remain to charm the audience with her abundant talent. Then again, performers without limbs or tongues seem an apt metaphor for this Titus??€”no matter how hard they try, the actors have been handicapped by the production surrounding them...
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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