Full casting announced for RSC’s TITUS ANDRONICUS
Full casting has been announced for the RSC’s forthcoming production of William Shakespeare’s bloodiest of tragedies, Titus Andronicus, directed by Max Webster, which runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between 17 April – 7 June.
As previously announced, RSC Associate Artist Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC to play the title role, alongside Natey Jones (The Grapes of Wrath, National Theatre) as Aaron, Emma Fielding (A Suite in Three Keys, Orange Tree Theatre) as Marcia Andronicus, Wendy Kweh (Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre) as Tamora, and Letty Thomas (Strategic Love Play, Soho Theatre/Paines Plough) as Lavinia, with Jeremy Ang Jones as Demetrius, Marlowe Chan-Reeves as Chiron, Danny Collins as Martius/Messenger, Ned Costello as Bassianus/Publius, Joshua James as Saturninus, Thomas Josling as Quintus/Aemilius, Joel MacCormack as Lucius, and Jerone Marsh-Reid as Alarbus/Goth, Sharita Oomeer as Nurse/Goth.
Talking about the production, director Max Webster said: “I have always been fascinated, curious and horrified by Titus Andronicus and when the RSC asked me to think about this play with one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation - Simon Russell Beale - it was impossible to say no. Around him we have assembled an insanely talented company, including Natey Jones, Emma Fielding, Wendy Kweh and Letty Thomas, which feels like a very special way for me to work for the first time at the RSC.
“I think this play - one of Shakespeare’s first - is full of young man bravado and anger, and creates a howl of pain that seems to echo tragically with our modern world.”
Also on the creative team are set and costume designer Joanna Scotcher, lighting designer Lee Curran, composer Matthew Herbert, sound designer Tingying Dong, movement director Jade Hackett, fight and intimacy directors Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown, and casting director Matthew Dewsbury CDG.