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A Violent New World: ‘Titus Andronicus’ at NKU SOTA

In Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts’ production of “Titus Andronicus,” audiences are immersed in violence from the moment they enter a deliberately awkward performance space. By placing spectators on opposite sides of the action and surrounding them with floor-to-ceiling plastic sheets, director Darnell Pierre Benjamin draws the audience into Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy and confronts our fascination with watching violence up close.  As Benjamin’s program note observes, revenge tragedy was all the rage when…