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Titus Andronicus
The Rose Playhouse, London SE1
4/5
JUNG HAN KIM’S adaptation of Shakespeare’s seldom-performed Titus Andronicus manages the difficult feat of reducing a complex political plot to its tragic bones.
Set during the latter days of the Roman Empire, it’s a fictional account of the general Titus and the bloody cycle of revenge unleashed by his conflict with the Goth queen Tamora.
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