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For the first time in its history, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. When Roman General Titus returns from his victorious campaign against the Goths, he sacrifices one of the Goth princes in retaliation, setting in motion a horrific cycle. Amid the violence, Shakespeare provides scenes of deep humanity, illustrating the futility and human costs of revenge. Gale Edwards ( Richard III and Hamlet ) returns to direct.

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare
directed by Gale Edwards
4/3/2007—5/20/2007

Lansburgh Theatre

Runtime: approximately 2 hours 35 minutes
with one intermission

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“… Edwards succeeds mightily in balancing this parade of Shakespeare offers … she has kept it free of exploitation and excessive prurience and still made it relevant. This Titus is high on action with enough superb displays of choreography and well-rehearsed stage-craft to keep even the YouTube crowd rapt.”
Kate Wingfield, Metro Weekly
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For the first time in its history, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Written at the beginning of Shakespeare’s career, the play reinvents the revenge tragedies popular in Shakespeare’s day, heaping scenes of bloodshed one on top of the other. When Roman General Titus returns from his victorious campaign against the Goths, he sacrifices one of the Goth princes in retaliation, setting in motion a horrific cycle. But amid the violence, Shakespeare provides scenes of deep humanity, depicting the anguish and loss felt by Titus, the Goths’ Queen Tamora and their families and illustrating the futility and human costs of revenge. In the character of Titus, Shakespeare foreshadowed the great tragic heroism of Brutus and the depths of Lear’s despair. Director Gale Edwards returns for the first time since her productions of Richard III and Hamlet, two of the most successful and critically acclaimed productions in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s history. This production is part of Shakespeare in Washington.