Cast: 8 Men 3 or 4 Woman
Synopsis
Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the “Penny Dreadful” String of Pearls a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and bloodshed to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central...
Cast: 8 Men 3 or 4 Woman
Synopsis
Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the “Penny Dreadful” String of Pearls a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and bloodshed to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance & child’s legacy on the bloody way.
Traditionally, Todd, now Titus Todd, is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. His victims fall backward down a revolving trap door into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In case they are alive, Todd goes to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). Mrs. Tamara Gothic Dread, his partner in crime, assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop.
Running Time Estimated 110 minutes + Intermission (70 pages publishing format, 12 pt type)
Aaron Vindice Hannibal – "indentured servant", slave to Mrs. Dread, African descent, British speaker
Can be played by:
Age:
30s, 40s, 50s
Race/Ethnicity:
Black, African, Caribbean, or African American
Gender:
Male
Mrs. Tamara Gothique Dread – piemaker of Fleet St, mother to Demitri/Spurio
40s-50s,
Any (but probably white)
,
Female
Mrs. Tamara Gothique Dread – piemaker of Fleet St, mother to Demitri/Spurio, mother to Aaron's black child
Can be played by:
Age:
30s, 40s, 50s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Female
Master Spurio Dread – 17 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread
17,
Any (but probably white)
,
Male
Master Spurio Dread – 17 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread
Can be played by:
Age:
Teens, 20s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Master Demitri Dread – 18 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread
18,
Any (but probably white)
,
Male
Master Demitri Dread – 18 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread
Can be played by:
Age:
Teens, 20s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Mr. Bassianus Ingestrie – adventurer, law student, love interest to Lavinia
20s 30s,
Any (but probably white)
,
Male
Mr. Bassianus Ingestrie – adventurer, law student, love interest to Lavinia
Can be played by:
Age:
20s, 30s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Miss Lavinia Barker – 16 years old, daughter to Titus, ward to Judge Saturpin
16,
Any (but probably white)
,
Female
Miss Lavinia Barker – 16 years old, daughter to Titus, ward to Judge Saturpin
Can be played by:
Age:
Teens, 20s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Female
Judge Valentine Serpentine Saturpin Judge has condemned Titus to life in prison, raped his wife, taken Titus’ daughter Lavinia as his ward, plans to marry her
40s - 60s,
Any (but probably white)
,
Male
Judge has condemned Titus to life in prison, raped his wife, taken Titus’ daughter Lavinia as his ward, plans to marry her
Can be played by:
Age:
40s, 50s, 60s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Beadle Sordidos Slaughter – assists the judge, large profane man
40s 50s 60s ,
Any (but probably white)
,
Male
Beadle Sordidos Slaughter – assists the judge, large profane man
Can be played by:
Age:
40s, 50s, 60s
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male
Tobias Ragg – workhouse boy, African descent
Teens, 20s,
Black African
,
Male
Tobias Ragg – workhouse boy, African descent, to match Aaron and become part of his family at end of play