Candles take the brunt in gore-free production of Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare's most violent play to be staged with actors' candles being pummelled in scenes with bloodshed

Eight years after a stomach-churning, splatter-fest production of Titus Andronicus led to some audience members fainting, Shakespeare's Globe is to ask how do you generate a similar murderous horror in a more intimate, candle-lit space?

The solution? The candles get bumped off.