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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown

Candles take the brunt in gore-free production of Titus Andronicus

The 2014 production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe caused some members of the audience to faint.
The 2014 production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe caused some members of the audience to faint. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Eight years after a stomach-churning, splatter-fest production of Titus Andronicus led to some audience members fainting, Shakespeare’s Globe is to ask how do you generate a similar murderous horror in a more intimate, candle-lit space?

The solution? The candles get bumped off.

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