A live performance of the tragedy "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare. Set in Roman times, the play deals with the bloody revenge of Roman general Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction. Grotesquely violent and daringly experimental, Titus was the smash hit of Shakespeare's early career, and is written with a ghoulish energy he was never to repeat elsewhere.

底比斯王俄狄浦斯得知自己拭父娶母，罪孽深重，因此去位，并客死他乡，留下二子二女。二子为争夺王位，刀兵相见。一子波吕涅刻斯率岳父城邦的军队攻打底比斯，另一子厄特俄科勒斯率底比斯军抵抗，两人都战死沙场。克瑞翁，俄狄浦斯王之母/妻的弟弟，继任底比斯城邦的王位。为惩罚叛徒，克瑞翁下令(一个实在法)不许安葬波吕涅刻斯，违者处死。俄狄浦斯之女安提戈涅挑战克瑞翁的政令，认为哥哥即使是叛徒，也应当得到安葬，因为人死了入土为安是天神制定的永恒不变的不成文法。克瑞翁判安提戈涅死刑—将安氏关进墓室，让其自然死亡。安提戈涅的未婚夫、克瑞翁之子海蒙为了爱情而自杀，并导致其母即克瑞翁的妻子自杀。克瑞翁陷于极度的痛苦。（© 苏力）

A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.

Freddie Jackson (Tom Hardy) is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing) dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. His younger cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans), dreams of making a name for himself on Freddie's coattails.

At first Freddie gets everything he ever wanted and Jimmy is taken along for the ride: a growing crime empire that gives them all the respect and money they've hungered for. But behind it all sits Ozzy (Brian Cox) - the legendary criminal godfather who manipulates Freddie and Jimmy's fates from behind the bars of his prison cell.

Bitter, resentful and increasingly unstable, Jackie sees her life crumble while her little sister Maggie's (Charlotte Riley) star rises. In love with Freddie's cousin Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister.

Freddie and Jackie watch Jimmy and Maggie achieve all the dreams that they themselves failed to realise: love, family, stability and respect.

Jealous resentment and an inability to control himself force Freddie to put both the business and family at risk. Torn between being loyal to a cousin he loves and being true to his own destiny, Jimmy is forced to decide between protecting Freddie or the life he has built with Maggie.