Titus Andronicus review — Simon Russell Beale doesn't get the blood pumping
All this and Simon Russell Beale in the title role too. His faded Roman warrior will see two sons killed and a daughter raped and mutilated. He will hack off his own hand too before finally feeding his enemy's sons to her in a pie. Shakespeare's first and bloodiest tragedy is brutal, and bananas.
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Daily Record
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- Daily Record
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Edinburgh Reporter
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- Edinburgh Reporter
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