Titus Andronicus is the Bard's most violent work, and a new production is set to be one of the most extreme takes on it yet. It raises the question: why do we watch such brutality?

Both statesman and warrior, this Titus is brutal and yet humane. Beale brings "poignancy and lyricism" to a "beautiful, blood-soaked nightmare" of a staging, agreed Dominic Cavendish in The Daily ...

Titus Andronicus returns from war with the Goths, of which Tamora is queen. She weeds her way into the emperor, Saturninus' favor, and wreaks havoc on Titus and all his family.

Tragedy Titus Andronicus is the Bard's goriest work ... do we opt to watch such harrowing content as art, as entertainment? It's a question that partly motivated Russell Beale to do Titus ...