Kirrawee performer Jayna Patel has been offered a role in Titus Andronicus with the Bell Shakespeare Company, starting this week.
At 15, Jayna has performed in several community theatre musicals and has been with the NSW State Drama ensembles with the Arts Unit for four consecutive years.
All this experience has led to a professional debut in this new Shakespeare play, hosted by the Opera House from August 31 to September 27.
The play tells of a confronting and gory revenge tragedy, and was a smash hit of Shakespeare's early career.
It is Shakespeare's terrifying tale of two families locked in a violent cycle of chaos and bloody vengeance.
Twenty-one children are left dead on the battleground, Titus returns home to Rome with Queen of the Goths, Tamora, and her three sons as prisoners of war.
Political intrigue and corruption turn to rape, cannibalism, mutilation and murder as people become pawns in a torturous battle of wills. Shakespeare dives into the depths of humankind's most vile traits and invites audiences to revel in the horrors that are found within. Grotesquely violent and boldly experimental, Shakespeare's bloodiest play is an interrogation of power and paranoia.
Directed by Adena Jacobs (Belvoir's Wizard of Oz and English National Opera's Salome), this production will have you questioning where does the cycle of revenge truly begin and end?