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On the 23 feb - 1 Mar 2008 TITUS ANDRONICUS will open at The Mary Wallace Theatre in Twickenham.
This site is to give information to actors and to those involved or interested in the production.

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You will find informtion on the style that we will be using in the show, dates for the future workshops, the audition and dates for rehearsals.
The will also be pages with information on the actors involved and a summery of the plays contents, and influences.






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Titus Andronicus is a play with 14 killings,

9 of them on stage, 6 severed members,

1 rape (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count),

1 live burial,

1 case of insanity and 1 of cannibalism--

an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.

 

Really, there's not much more to say; that is the essence of the play.

Titus Andronicus is a non-stop pot-boiler catalogue of abominations.






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I believe in bringing together actors with willingness to form a powerful and exciting base from which to create magnificent and vibrant theatre.

 

I am looking for performers who wish to constantly change and evolve.  As with all things, there are times when some will evolve quicker than others, but it is a constant process.

 

For that reason it’s very hard to define exactly what it is I’m looking for.  People’s need to ‘define’ is often what stops the process of innovation.  The moment we try to define what theatre is, we would already be betraying that definition.  It’s a scary thing, but we must always push ourselves to take risks.  Hopefully these risks will bring moments of greatness, as well as moments of spectacular failure and desperation – but it is these moments of failure and desperation that provoke the most exciting work.

 

The one constant, however, is the idea of the ‘company’, the ensemble, the collaboration.  The successful makeup of this production will be the hardest and most painful thing to achieve.  If done well, however, then half the battle is already won.  The absolute commitment of everyone involved is essential.  That commitment brings an ownership of the work that will bring unparalleled results.  I am interested in the actor as creator, not as a puppet.

 

Quite simply, this production is only as good and as exciting as the sum of the people who are involved in the creation of the work.

"Why, I have not another tear to shed,"