Titus Andronicus: Old Globe, San Diego, CA, 2006.

The best known and most successful production of the play in England was directed by Peter Brook for the RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1955, starring Laurence Olivier as Titus, Maxine Audley as Tamora, Anthony Quayle as Aaron and Vivien Leigh as Lavinia. Brook had been offered the chance to direct Macbeth but had controversially turned it down, and instead decided to stage Titus. The success of this production restored the currency of the original script, but it is also ascribed to the brutality of twentieth century taste as a result of the universal violence of that century. See Alan C. Dessen, Titus Andronicus, Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 1989 (Shakespeare in Performance series).

In this 2006 production: Titus Andronicus: (Front L to R) Wynn Harmon as Saturninus, Leonard Kelly-Young as Titus Andronicus, Celeste Ciulla as Tamora, Michael Urie as Chiron, and Michael A. Newcomer as Demetrius. Compare this scene with the Elizabethan staging of Titus in Gallery 2, Page 4, images 22-4. Photographed by Craig Schwartz. Copyright: Old Globe San Diego, via Internet Shakespeare Editions. Some data from Wikipedia , under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License.