Archive theatre review: Elizabethan carnage nearly credible
Titus Andronicus, the least known but the most notorious play in the Shakespearean canon, was given performance to-night for the first time in Stratford-on-Avon's history. It Is a magnificent production. People seemed half to be expecting a "horror comic" for the ghastly details of the story " rape, mutilation, and cannibalism " seemed impossible, on paper, to take quite seriously. In the event, tonight's a…