I’m Hannah and I play Lavinia
Hello I’m Nia and I play Tamora, Queen of
the Goths.
So the play starts with Titus Andronicus,
my father, coming home from a ten year war
against the Goths, with most of his sons killed,
and as prisoner Tamora, the Queen of the Goths,
her lover, and her three sons.
As soon as we get back to Rome, as prisoners,
my eldest son Alarbus is sacrificed in front
of me. As a result of this I pledge to destroy
Titus and his remaining family.
Lavinia marries the emperor’s brother Bassianus.
And within minutes of seeing my son slaughtered
I find myself married to the emperor which
strengthens my position greatly. My lover
and I plot to kill Bassianus.
They decide to frame the death on Titus’s
sons who are then beheaded and their severed
heads are brought to Titus.
I allow my two sons to rape Lavinia. They
also mutilate her so terribly that she’s
unable to tell anybody who had perpetrated
this crime.
Titus vows to take revenge. Lucius, the eldest
of Titus’s sons, and the last remaining
son, is then banished out of Rome for helping
his brothers, and he decides to raise an
army against the emperor and the empress.
I decide to go and visit Titus, who by this
point in the play has been driven mad by his
grief. I present myself as the embodiment
of revenge to Titus and tell him that I will
help him revenge all his foes if he can get
Lucius to call off his invasion. But the plan
backfires and Tamora leaves her two remaining
sons in the care of Titus.
And Titus, having discovered what these two
boys have done, decides to kill them
His plan is then to bake the boys in a pie
and serve them at a banquet to which Tamora
and the emperor and his son Lucius have been invited.
At the beginning of this feast he kills Lavinia
in front of all of the guests there as an
act of kindness, she’s been suffering for
so long.
He then tells Tamora that she’s just eaten
a pie that contains the bodies of her dead
sons. No sooner has he told her this than
he kills her. The emperor then kills Titus,
and Lucius, Titus’s remaining son, kills
the emperor.
There’s utter bloodshed, and Lucius becomes
emperor.
