Learning on ScreenWilliam Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
- Synopsis
- Feature length low-budget film shot on digital video. A modern re-telling of Titus Andronicus featuring the disaffected youth culture of the ‘Goths’ and fervent lobbyists from the Saturnius and Bassianus ‘parties’. The film’s press release states that ‘whereas other adaptations of the play, such as Julie Taymor’s TITUS, have concentrated on the more sensational and violent aspects of the play, Richard Griffin’s vision highlights the intrigue and complex cycle of vengeance triggered by one person’s lack of compassion and a senseless act of violence. Nigel Gore brings humanity and passion to a character long neglected in the history of drama’.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2000
- Duration
- 167 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy or distributor found (2007)
Credits
- Director
- Richard Griffin
- Producer
- Christopher Pierson; Zoya Pierson
- Cinematographer
- Jeffrey Long
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Screenplay
- Richard Griffin
- Music
- Geoffrey Hudson
- Production Design
- Raven Latourneau
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Plays
- Titus Andronicus
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Estimated budget $12,000
- General
- The film’s tagline is ‘The Nightmare of the retribution, the fraility of the human soul and the madness of one man’.
Shot entirely in Providence, Rhode Island. - Reviews
- Janusonis, Michael ‘The best revenge’. The Providence Journal (August 25 2000) (full text available at www.projo.com).
Online Availability
Production Company
- Name
South Main Street Productions
- Address
- USA
Record Stats
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