Puppet Titus Andronicus Review

In a recent appearance on Fox News, Twisted Sister frontman–turned–Off Broadway producer Dee Snider summed up Puppet Titus Andronicus—a low-budget, hipster, furry riff on Shakespeare’s bloodiest play—thusly: ”If you hate Shakespeare, you will love puppet Shakespeare.” It’s a pretty good pitch. Puppet Shakespeare seems perfect for high school kids who think the Bard is uncool and inaccessible (note the light profanity, nipple rings, and frequent mentions of threesomes), who would never sit through three and a half hours of King Lear (Puppet Titus clocks in at about 100 minutes), or who can’t pay Broadway prices to see Orlando Bloom in Romeo and Juliet (tickets go for about $50, most of which seems to have gone toward silly string).