Alice Vincent for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015
There may have been five “droppers” – a theatrical term for fainting audience members – overcome by the fake bloodshed at Titus Andronicus at The Globe last year, but one new play is promising considerably more than the nine brutal on-stage deaths in Shakespeare’s first tragedy.
The Complete Deaths will detail all of the Bard’s 74 scripted deaths in one play, from early rapier thrusts to the more elaborate viper-breast-application adopted by Cleopatra. The total makes Shakespeare’s complete works more gory than notorious HBO TV show Game of Thrones, which has scripted 61 deaths in 50 episodes, including the controversial burning of a child at the stake.
Tim Crouch, who is directing the play for Spymonkey production company, told The Times he had spent “a lot of time going through each play” to find all 74 human deaths – he has excluded that of a fly that meets a sticky end in Titus Andronicus.
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