Titus Andronicus

titling scenes in Titus
Paul Sawtell, Stage Manager for the current production of Titus Andronicus, writes:

'We asked the Assistant Director, Tom Wright, to devise a list of scene titles to make the (acting) company read the rehearsal calls better and therefore prepare for rehearsals more efficiently. This is a common practice at the RSC and one that works very well.'

Titus Andronicus - scene titles
1: Election 2: Sacrifice of Alarbus 3: Succession 4: Proposal & Release 5: Wooing of Tamora 6: Reconciliation 7: Aron Alone 8: Braving Boys 9: Early Morning 10: Aron & Tamora 11: The Taunting 12: Murder & Rape 13: The Pit 14: The Brothers Framed 15: Mockery 16: Marcus Encounters Lavinia 17: Titus Petitions the Judges 18: Lucius' Banishment 19: Titus Sees Lavinia 20: Amputation 21: I Am The Sea 22: Two Heads & A Hand

INTERVAL

23: The Fly 24: Enter Young Lucius 25: Receiving the Weapons 26: Aron's Child 27: Arrows 28: Clown 29: Saturninus Indignant 30: Killing the Messenger 31: Tamora's Plan 32: The Goths Camp/Aron Captive 33: An Emissary 34: Revenge 35: Titus and The Boys 36: Butchering the Boys 37: Lucius Arrives for Dinner 38: The Emperor Arrives for Dinner 39: Dinner 40: Epilogue

ideas for the classroom: devising scene titles
Split the class into five groups and then allocated each group an act of the Shakespeare play they are studying.

Ask them to divide the act into scenes and give each scene a short title which;

a) remind a company of actors what the scene is about

b) succinctly capture the essence of the scene.


			Paul Sawtell, Stage Manager for the current production of Titus Andronicus, writes: 'We asked the Assistant Director, Tom Wright, to devise a list of scene titles to make the (acting) company read the rehearsal calls better and therefore prepare for rehearsals more efficiently. This is a common practice at the RSC and one that works very well.' 1: Election 2: Sacrifice of Alarbus 3: Succession 4: Proposal & Release 5: Wooing of Tamora 6: Reconciliation 7: Aron Alone 8: Braving Boys 9: Early Morning 10: Aron & Tamora 11: The Taunting 12: Murder & Rape 13: The Pit 14: The Brothers Framed 15: Mockery 16: Marcus Encounters Lavinia 17: Titus Petitions the Judges 18: Lucius' Banishment 19: Titus Sees Lavinia 20: Amputation 21: I Am The Sea 22: Two Heads & A Hand INTERVAL 23: The Fly 24: Enter Young Lucius 25: Receiving the Weapons 26: Aron's Child 27: Arrows 28: Clown 29: Saturninus Indignant 30: Killing the Messenger 31: Tamora's Plan 32: The Goths Camp/Aron Captive 33: An Emissary 34: Revenge 35: Titus and The Boys 36: Butchering the Boys 37: Lucius Arrives for Dinner 38: The Emperor Arrives for Dinner 39: Dinner 40: Epilogue Split the class into five groups and then allocated each group an act of the Shakespeare play they are studying. Ask them to divide the act into scenes and give each scene a short title which; a) remind a company of actors what the scene is about b) succinctly capture the essence of the scene.