It\u2019s not just the high body count \u2014 14 deaths, nine of them onstage \u2014 that makes Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Titus Andronicus the most violent in his oeuvre. The cruel methodology, including rape, mutilation and a live burial, contributes to the reputation of the Bard\u2019s early revenge tragedy as he sought to match the work of his bloody-minded Elizabethan contemporaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rarely performed play fell out of favor for centuries until Peter Brook\u2019s landmark 1955 revival starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh emphasized its psychological depth over the gore. Still, it\u2019s hard to top the climactic baking of Queen Tamora\u2019s sons into meat pies, which Titus then feeds her at a banquet before most of the remaining characters are murdered.<\/p>\n
Shakespeare Dallas\u2019 current production relocates the plot to Club Titus, \u201ca glamorous, decadent nightclub in a state of decay, where wealth, power and spectacle collide,\u201d says director Danielle Georgiou. \u201cBeneath the glitter and excess lies a brutal world driven by ego, violence and revenge, inviting us to examine how performative power and toxic masculinity continue to shape our culture today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just the high body count \u2014 14 deaths, nine of them onstage \u2014 that makes Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Titus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93542,87998,89866],"class_list":["post-439320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-performing-arts","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}