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Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Triumphs with TITUS ANDRONICUS

Shakespeare’s early revenge tragedy, TITUS ANDRONICUS, is a bloodbath of murder, dismemberment, rape, and cannibalism, which has remained for centuries the Bard’s most maligned work. Some have questioned its authorship, others blame it on the playwright’s youth, and English dramatist Edward Ravenscroft, writing in 1687, went so far as to call it “a heap of Rubbish” in the introduction to his own more tempered version of the play. But that long-held opinion will surely change with Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s spectacularly entertaining production, which combines live actors with puppetry, and melodramatic brutality with over-the-top comedy. more…