Okay, now my head hurts..

[madwitch]

Somehow or other, I have never bothered to read Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'. Neither has Nick, my impossibly tall housemate. So tonight, feeling vaguely in need of blank verse, we hire 'Titus', and settle with beer and mead to watch it.

Now I have to find my copy of it. We have to know for certain whether the stage direction 'Lucius kills the Emperor with a spoon' is in there, if the play *is* as mad as the film, or if the director's vision was just exceptionally warped...:)

Most Shakespeare tragedies: Everyone dies.
Titus Andronicus: Everyone gets horribly mutilated and *then* they die. Much later on.

Damn good film, though....:)

Comments

[bringeroflight.livejournal.com]

if the play *is* as mad as the film

Yes.

And, infamously, the best stage direction in the history of theatre:

"Enter Lavinia, raped, with her hands cut off and her tongue ripped out."

[quisalan.livejournal.com]

When I saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company in London, they claimed Shakespeare was going throught his "Quentin Tarantino" phase ;)!