Titus Andronicus

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of Titus Andronicus. Directed by Bill Alexander with David Bradley as Titus.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2003
Duration: 174 mins

General: `Simply slamming a play in modern dress doesn’t necessarily help. What we’ve done with this production is to create a world that is a combination of a classical and an Elizabethan world. When Shakespeare was writing the play, in the early 1590s, his audience was hugely influenced by the Roman world, so we decided to combine the Elizabethan with an Elizabethan view of the Roman in the design’ . [Ruari Murchison, designer. RSC website.]
History: First performance 12 September 2003. It played in repertoire until 7 November and from 2-6 December at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Reviews: Insights into the five-week rehearsal period of this production by the director, his assistant, the designer, a fight choreographer and a company of actors at the RSC can be read found at http://www.rsc.org.uk/titus/current/home.html

`Bringing a Production to Life’ in RSC 2003 Yearbook, pp35-30.
[Looks at production planning, props and costumes, wigs and make-up, rehearsals, lighting, sound and music and technical and dress rehearsal].

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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