Shakespeare’s Game of Thrones for Adelaide
Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare’s Game of Thrones and in the 400th anniversary year of his death, and Adelaide theatre company Red Phoenix is staging the South Australian premiere of this wonderful text. Without doubt, it is his bloodiest play. The play is a gripping thriller and was so popular in his own lifetime that it became a smash hit.
The Roman General, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome after a victorious campaign against the barbarous Goths. He brings with him prisoners, as gifts for Rome, including Tamora (the beautiful Queen of the Goths) and her sons. Titus sacrifices Tamora’s eldest son to the ghosts of the dead and unwittingly unleashes a vicious cycle of revenge.
In a surprising twist, the new Roman Emperor, Saturninus, marries Tamora which gives her the opportunity to wreak horrific and brutal revenge upon Titus and his family. His daughter is raped, his sons are murdered and he slowly begins to lose his mind.
But Titus builds a plan as wild as his mind and we are left gasping as he hacks his way to a bloody end. Who will live? Who will die? Who will take the throne? No one is safe.
The play is directed by Michael Eustice and features a troupe of talented and popular Adelaide actors including Adolphus Waylee, Anna Bampton, Brant Eustice, Geoff Dawes, Joshua Mensch, Joseph Salcedo-Storer, Joshua Coldwell, Kyron Weetra, Lyn Wilson, Mark Ritchie, Matt Houston, Mat Lynch, Peter Kahlbaum, Rachel Burfield, Tony Sampson, Tracey Walker and Sean Watters.
August 18 to 27.
Holden Street Theatres, The Studio.