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TW: rape
(Original post at The National Student)
Titus Andronicus is not an easy play to stage. Perhaps Shakespeare’s most violent work, the play is famed for its excessive savagery; rape, mutilation, and cannibalism are so ubiquitous in Titus Andronicus that for years, many critics have derided the play for its sadism and narrative simplicity.
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Photo by Helen Maybanks.
(Original post at The Boar)
Polly Findlay has staged a raucous, playful production of The Alchemist, Ben Jonson’s esteemed city comedy.
Photo by Helen Maybanks
(Original post at The Boar)
Maria Aberg returns to the RSC to direct a lurid, fantastical production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. By now, most of us know the story – an ambitious scholar makes a fatal deal with Lucifer’s agent Mephistopheles. In exchange, he receives near limitless power, and meets a tragic demise. Aberg’s play is chaotic to watch, yet rarely steps a foot wrong, and left me near breathless at its close.
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