Comic sendup of Shakespeare tragedy backed by Dee Snider isn’t quite first-string, but gets a boost from Mindy Leanse

In Puppet Titus Andronicus, a comic riff on the Bard’s grisliest tragedy, the fur flies. So does silly string. The candy-colored aerosol goop stands in for blood in the latest revival of a gory classic about a Roman general hellbent on revenge — and all that goes with it. That includes slit throats, a raped virgin, a severed tongue, hacked-off hands and a dash of covert cannibalism. Such over-the-top violence invites a few pokes. Backed by Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and presented by the Puppet Shakespeare Players, which has already put Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet through its Avenue Q-like mill, the show packs some inspired and amusing moments — including a unique use of ricotta cheese — but, alas, it mostly just strings you along.