Following the tremendous success of Michaelmas term’s production of Richard III, the Jesus College Shakespeare Project continues its 2023/2024 season with Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s blood-soaked early tragedy of violence and revenge.

“O, what a sympathy of woe is this;
As far from help as limbo is from bliss.”

Act 3, Scene 1

The play follows the ageing Titus Andronicus, Rome’s greatest general, who, after a long and distinguished military career, returns home victorious from his final campaign against the Goths, ready for retirement. However, when he gives his consent to what he believes will be his final act of violence, it sets in motion an unstoppable cycle of sickening, and deeply disturbing, acts of revenge from which no one will remain unscathed.

Tickets are now available for members of the College community for the following performances:

Friday 16 February at 8.15pm at £5 each 

Saturday 17 February at 2pm at £10 each (includes refreshments and post-play Q&A)

Saturday 17 February at 7.30pm at £5 each

All performances take place in Hall, and last approximately 1hr 40 minutes (without interval).

Please note that the performance contains brutal depiction of r*pe and mutilation and its aftermath, frequent racist slurs, scenes of murder, assault, sexual coercion, distressing depictions of corporal and capital punishment, human sacrifice, grief, deaths (including those of children and attempted infanticide), mental illness, cannibalism, vomiting, weapons, sudden loud noises