C venues - C nova
31 July - 17 August
12.15
1 hour 45 minutes

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17th July - Dame Alice Owens School
Titus Andronicus is a play with 14 killings, 9 on stage, 6 severed members, one rape, one live burial, one case of insanity and one of cannibalism. With an average of 5.2 atrocities per act or one every 97 lines, this gruesome play, set against the backdrop of post-communist Russia, will re-imagined as a living, breathing, bleeding graphic novel... This production transforms one of Shakespeare's classics into a gritty, modern and exciting experience and brings the story of Titus Andronicus to life, asking the question: how far will you go for revenge?

Friday 21 June 2013

All Quiet on the Titus Front...

Apologies for the rather quiet blog in the last week and a half or so... We've been busy working away at some of the less exciting parts of taking a show up to Edinburgh, rehearsal schedules, travel and insurance to name a few...

Anyway, onto some more exciting developments. Our graphic novel flyers, telling the story of a particularly gruesome scene in the play, are currently being sketched out by our in house animator and all round artistic genius Jordan Nichols. We will be able to share those with you within the next week or so. Get ready for lots of black and white, with eye-catching splashes of red blood.

Just to save you from some of the extreme anxiety you are all no doubt feeling in anticipation of the flyer, here is a peek at the (very very very) rough photoshoot used to map out the panels for Jordan.



Thursday 6 June 2013

On the Subject of Swearing...

      Considering the evidence shown below and the somewhat stressful situation show in the video in the previous post (all our own fault of course), I'm pretty impressed we only swore twice.

Especially with our foul mouthed director on the loose....



Hmm doesn't really bode well for future interviews.

Tuesday 4 June 2013

The Story so Far!

So, the story so far... In the manic past couple of weeks (lots of) mistakes have been made and even more lessons have been learnt. Our first outing to the Fringe has certainly thrown up some interesting surprises. Firstly, offering a lot of piece of mind is the booking of accommodation, which, was more straightforward (yet very much more expensive!), than first thought . Deposit has been paid, so thats its come rain or shine, DTP will be in Edinburgh this summer.

The absolute joy of writing a press release was next in the agenda, its surprising how difficult it is to write about a show you've been working on constantly on... for six months. Nevertheless, the press release was submitted on time, much to the relief of the hard-up production team...

Speaking of which, as with any start up theatre company, funds and backing are the constant headache with ideas of how to convince people to give us their hard-earned cash at the forefront of everyone's minds. In light of this, a Kickstarter page was more than necessary. Over four days we wrote, filmed and edited a promo video for this page. The plan for the video went from a very structured, pretty serious, corporate, Apprentice-esque one to a much more.... interesting one shall we say. The intense, gripping storyline will keep you hooked throughout the more wordy interviews and hopefully convince you to hand over some sweet cash for some even sweeter prizes.

As soon as the page is approved by the Kickstarter hierarchy the link to the page and video will be posted everywhere. So STAY POSTED!

Hopefully this time around we will not be reduced to this babbling state:





I think we did pretty well there only swearing twice...?

Sunday 2 June 2013

Music!

Todd Garber shall be composing the music for the production once again, featuring tracks from the original run plus some new additions it is certainly going to be one of the highlights of the production! Stay tuned for some taster tracks in the near future...