Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome played at QPAC's Cremorne Theatre in September 2008.
Get caught up in a sordid web of lust, decadence, betrayal and vengeance when Queensland Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare present a powerful production of Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary, an extraordinary tale with a wickedly dark heart.
Directed by Michael Gow and starring John Bell, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome is a modern, provocative and irreverent reworking of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus by influential playwright, Heinur Müller.
Set in Rome in the aftermath of war between the Romans and the Goths, Titus Andronicus, Rome’s greatest military leader, returns home victorious. But he returns to a battlefield of another kind – the ruthless and corrupt Roman court that threatens the future of the city he fought to protect.
Director Michael Gow says, “Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome is a combination of crazy comedy and bloody deeds. The audience will have a sense of having been through something intense – hilarious, appalling and everything in between.”
This story of a great man’s fall from power is a sharply political work that will resonate deeply with a 21st Century audience as is speaks as much of our world today as it does Ancient Rome.
Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome - a production of breathtaking theatrical power - played at QPAC's Cremorne Theatre in September 2008.
