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Titus Andronicus review – Simon Russell Beale is sublime amid epic horrors

Echoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC

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‘The violence is relentless. I don’t understand it’: Simon Russell Beale faces up to Shakespeare’s goriest play

The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptability’ – but he’s made a few changes

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Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV

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Judi Dench on trigger warnings: if you’re that sensitive, avoid the theatre

Oscar-winning actor enters row about pre-performance advisories, suggesting they kill the surprise of seeing drama in your own way

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Gore blimey! The surprising source of a special effect in Titus Andronicus

Letter: Peter Gildener on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production with David Bradley in the eponymous role

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‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

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Andronicus Synecdoche review – Shakespeare as gruesome gothic opera

Polish company Song of the Goat strip Titus Andronicus back to tell a brutal tale of postwar violence, betrayal and revenge

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