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...Year's Eve, tens of thousands of Kalenjin and Luo tribesmen tore through the Kikuyu sections of Kibera, mirroring violence across the country. Few seemed to care whether Kibaki and his tribe would fight back. "If there's civil war, it is the Kikuyus who will lose," says Titus Odiambo, a Luo fish trader. "It's their buildings that will burn. We don't have anything at stake." Some Kikuyu gangs struck back, but tens of thousands simply fled to the central highlands, where they are the majority tribe...
...glimmerings of what might later develop into “Hamlet” or “Julius Caesar” are evident in Titus Andronicus. There is revenge, lust, and violence galore. The staple characters are all present: a slutty Queen, an evil Emperor, a vengeful son and brother (Lucius, played by Christopher N. Hanley ’07-’08), and even an Ophelia-like Lavinia...
Fishburn is wonderfully somber and patriarchal as Titus, with a face as pensive and tortured as Mel 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...
Often, poor directorial decisions contribute to the over-dramatization of the actors. In the case of blocking, the lack of acting off center stage makes the rest of the theatre seem cluttered with statues rather than actors. For example, when Titus renounces his children, one would expect his sons to be grief-stricken at both their father’s anger and their brother’s death. Instead, they expressionlessly examine the corpse as though it were a lab cadaver...
Relatively unknown among the Shakespeare canon, “Titus Andronicus” is a difficult work to tackle. Although the production was a little rough-edged, the cast and crew deserve kudos simply for their daring...