Yaz again, with another set of mini-updates for you, rounding up some recent production news. This time: our trailer, our print, and the set arrives! Trailer Last week we shot a trailer, with the brilliant Haroun Al-Shaater (from the brilliant Brother Brother). I’m allowed to say he’s brilliant, even though he’s my brother. [...]
Hello world, Yaz here, director of Titus. I’ve been promising the team a blog post for a long time. I want to tell you all about the wonderful workshops we’ve had, the challenges we’ve faced in bringing this complex story to life, the questions of gender identity and politics that this play has thrown up […]
Here’s a portrait of the four new actors joining Smooth Faced Gentlemen for Titus Andronicus, taken by the wonderful Haroun at Brother Brother. Left to right they are Stella Taylor, Madeleine Gould, Vivienne Acheampong, and Emma Nixon. They join Francesca Binefa, Leila Sykes, Henri Merriam, and founder Ashlea Kaye to form the cast for [...]
This time on our Titus Rehearsal Blog, Henri Merriam writes about playing the title character. It’s that time in the rehearsal period. The point where it suddenly strikes you that you are going to be expected to perform this mammoth piece in front of an audience. It’s given me a couple of sleepless nights. I […]
Rehearsal blog for Titus Andronicus. Today, Madeline Gould charts our experiments using paint as a blood substitute. Kiefer Sutherland (VO): Previously on Titus… Devotees will remember a passing mention of a body count. Thirteen… no, wait… fourteen onstage deaths? That’s a lot of blood! (Calm down, Kiefer. It’s no worse than when you ripped [...]
Rehearsal blog for Titus Andronicus. This time, Vivienne Acheampong writes about week two of rehearsals, and the insights locked in her character’s enigmatic language. After the first week of socks down pants (men, I don’t know how you do it!), aggressive tail pulling and thoughts on the play, another great week was about to [...]
Rehearsal blog from Madeline Gould, describing her reaction to the first two weeks of rehearsals for Titus Androniucs. Maddie will play Tamora in the show, which opens this July. This is the stuff I love. Table work: getting down to the nitty gritty of what you’re saying and why you’re saying it; engaging in accidental […]
Worth a look: The RSC’s Infographic on the body count in Titus Andronicus. Things are gonna get messy!
So, you’ve seen the photos, you’ve read the blogs, it’s finally time to officially announce our cast and crew for Titus Andronicus! We’ve got a cast of eight this time around, with four actors returning from our award-winning Romeo & Juliet and four fresh faces. We’ve also got a great creative team on board. [...]