An Elizabethan feast! Have it all: murder, rape, revenge, pies baked with blood. This is Shakespeare as it’s meant to be: brutally funny, bloody gruesome and with lots of guts to spill. Action To The Word adapts the play in a raw straightforward way, showing how Shakespeare works without a big stage or too much sophisticated fuss about it. Faces in the audience grow pale as hands are chopped off, tongues torn out, and heaps of real looking blood is spattered all over the floor; there are roars of laughter when Titus mocks the Queen of the Goths, and tears sparkling in some eyes when yet another child is murdered. A gorgeously acted and staged gory gothic slaughter to indulge in.
C, 3 – 29 Aug (not 16), 10.15pm (11.35pm), £7.50 – £11.50, fpp304.
tw rating 5/5
[vk]
Sections: by Veronika Kallus - ED2011 Theatre Reviews - tw rating 5/5 | Tags: Action To The Word, C Theatre, C Venues
Also from ThreeWeeks...
ED2011 iDaily #04: Yo Yo Yo Productions, Pop-up Productions, Rough Winds, Action To The Word
Welcome to edition four of the ThreeWeeks iDaily for Edinburgh Festival 2011, with your hosts for today, Chris and Clare. That real-life romances never quite work like in the movies is...
ED2011 Theatre Review: A Clockwork Orange (Action To The Word In Association With C Theatre)
Violent yet gentle, brutal yet subtle, arousing yet sickening: this production of A Clockwork Orange is breathtaking. The actors demonstrate utter control of their bodies and raw physical strength as...
ED2011 Musicals Review: Constance & Sinestra (Action To The Word In Association With C Theatre)
This new musical from Action To The Word is a rather delightful Gothic oddity, a mixture of Hansel and Gretel and a PG Sweeney Todd. Two sisters live in a...
GET ALERTS OF NEW THREEWEEKS CONTENT: Click here to sign up to the free ThreeWeeks email
