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A world of cruelty in Titus Andronicus /

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A world of cruelty in Titus Andronicus /

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Brody, Joshua Kahan

UC San Diego

2013

UC San Diego

2013

Titus Andronicus scares me. It scares me because it presents a world so far from what I hope our world is, but so close to what I fear our world is. It is a world of cruelty, of a perverse and violent logic driven by insatiable revenge. The challenge of the production was to create a clear and cruel world that forced the audience to deal with the reality of the horror of the events of the play. We sought to create a space where there was nowhere to hide, a harsh and unflattering lighting design that exposed rather than pleased the eye, a sound design that instilled a feeling of creeping horror. Through the style of acting, we strove to eliminate self-pity and lament from the emotional language of the play. Only in its final moments is the audience granted a kind of catharsis, when the young woman playing Young Lucius removes her boy's wig to reveal the actor, alone, weeping at the tragedy and the cruelty of the world that surrounds her. At my advisor's urging to challenge myself, I chose to take on a play that is largely devoid of the redemptive qualities of life. The world of Titus Andronicus is replete with cruelty and violence. It is a profane world, one driven by a perverse logic that perpetuates its hatred and barbarism

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UC San Diego

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