Chance to see acclaimed theatre version of Titus Andronicus on the big screen

Shakespeare's Globe on Screen - Titus Andronicus. Photo: Simon Kane

The fifth fantastic season of Shakespeare’s Globe On Screen continues with one of the darkest and most seminal productions in the Globe’s history, Titus Andronicus, which will be screened at Cineworld Crawley and The Hawth in April.

Tickets to experience theatre from the London home of Shakespeare are now on sale at www.globeonscreen.com.

This production revisited Lucy Bailey’s spectacular Globe production of 2006 and caused a stir throughout the UK media with staged violence so realistic that throughout its run the play saw audience members fainting in the stalls.

The 2015 cinema release, the first Globe On Screen film to receive a 15 certification, will have audiences on the edges of their seats from start to grisly end, according to the production company.

Returning to Rome from a war against the Goths, the general Titus Andronicus brings with him the queen Tamora and her three sons as prisoners of war. Titus’ sacrifice of Tamora’s eldest son to appease the ghosts of his dead sons, and his decision to refuse to accept the title of emperor, initiates a terrible cycle of mutilation, rape and murder. And all the while, at the centre of the nightmare, there moves the villainous, self-delighting Aaron.

Shakespeare’s grisly early tragedy oscillates between pitch-black comedy, terrible violence and moments of the most profound human suffering. Grotesquely violent and daringly experimental, Titus was the smash hit of Shakespeare’s early career, and is written with a ghoulish energy he was never to repeat elsewhere.

The creative team – director Lucy Bailey, designer William Dudley and composer Django Bates – are renowned for their radically inventive approaches and collective fondness for blood and gore.