The Problem Plays: Titus Andronicus with Myrrh Larsen and Megan Skye Hale
Bowls with the Bard by Micaela Mannix
Episode notes
How could we possibly talk about problem plays without mentioning Titus Andronicus? In this week’s bonus episode, Megan Skye Hale and Myrrh Larsen take a look at Shakespeare’s most violent play and talk about what it was like to produce it in 2023!
Myrrh Larsen (they/them) is a stage director, musician, songwriter and sound designer based out of Portland, Oregon. As a founding member of Speculative Drama, Myrrh has directed multiple immersive Shakespeare productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017) featuring circus aerial performers, the "Lake House" Hamlet (2019) staged immersively in a private home, Macbeth (2020) as a hybrid live & digital show including text and video messages to audience members, an all-queer Comedy Of Errors (2022) and a Hellraiser-inspired Titus Andronicus (2023), as well as designing m ...