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Theatre: Titus Andronicus
The Week Middle East
|July 15, 2017
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789-403493). Until 2 September Running time: 3hrs
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“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” So said Confucius. Wise words, on the face of it, said Dominic Maxwell in The Times. But then again, Confucius clearly “hadn’t seen Titus Andronicus”. Titus, the hero of Shakespeare’s most “crazily bloody” play, is a Roman general who takes murderous revenge on the royals who kill two of his sons, and attack his daughter, rip out her tongue and cut off her hands. He kills another of his sons for disagreeing with him, hacks his own hand off, and then kills the sons of the emperor’s new wife, the Goth queen Tamora, before baking them in a pie and feeding it to her. “Two graves? Pah!&rdqu
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