Titus Andronicus: a 'beautiful, blood-soaked nightmare'

Titus Andronicus: a 'beautiful, blood-soaked nightmare'

"It is not just heads that roll in Shakespeare's bloodiest drama," said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian. Prisoners are dismembered; a woman is raped, and her tongue cut out; hands are cut off and bodies mutilated "until they are mere meat, then cooked and fed to loved ones". In director Max Webster's superb production, his first for the RSC, all this, and more, is handled with chilling brilliance. No specific contemporary parallels are drawn, but th…