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Article: `Titus' dethrones Taymor.(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2000
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Directing the Broadway revamp of "The Lion King" brought Julie Taymor a magnitude of success that would be difficult to surpass. Presumably allowed to pick and choose in considering a movie debut, she has overreached in a lavishly wrongheaded and distasteful fashion in yoking her reputation to a near-epic adaptation of William Shakespeare's most excruciating play, "Titus Andronicus."
Miss Taymor's "Titus" crops the original title but wallows in stilted scenic ostentation and wretched excess while extending a notoriously brutal plot to the neighborhood of three hours.
Although the opening sequences suggest a barbaric menace and impact that are ...
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Article: It's Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);
June 7, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... Globe Theatre. Laura Rees says Titus Andronicus is being staged as Shakespeare ... Time and atrocities have helped Titus Andronicus,' said Susannah Clapp in The ... Hamlet. 'Past productions of Titus Andronicus have symbolically represented ...
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