Titus Andronicus October 22, 2009

DMTheatrics' new series is 'Grudge Match: DMT vs. Shakespeare,' in which the Bard's entire output will be "restaged, rethought, realigned, wrecked, and regurgitated with fearless abandon for a new 21st century audience." This radical remaking of one of Shakespeare's most controversial works boldly recasts the family Andronici as a matriarchal career military clan, with Titus as the grande dame of Roman warcraft and her sister Marta as the no-nonsense Tribune of the people. Victorious in battle, triumphant in war, chosen by the people to lead, Titus Andronicus has returned home after 10 long years defending the honor, the ethics, the very existence of the nation state she loves -- only to discover that the art of politics and the skirmishes within the halls of power are darker, crueler, and more violent than anything she has seen on the battlefield.