The success of the Brook production seems to have provided an impetus for directors to tackle the play , and ever since 1955 , there has been a steady stream of performances on the English and American stages . After Brook , the next major production came in 1967 , when Douglas Seale directed an extremely graphic and realistic presentation at the Centre Stage in Baltimore with costumes that recalled the various combatants in World War II . Seale 's production employed a strong sense of theatrical realism to make parallels between the contemporary period and that of '' Titus '' , and thus comment on the universality of violence and revenge . Seale set the play in the 1940s and made pointed parallels with concentration camps , the massacre at Katyn , the Nuremberg Rallies and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings . Saturninus was based on Benito Mussolini and all his followers dressed entirely in black ; Titus was modelled after a Prussian Army officer ; the Andronici wore Nazi insignia and the Goths at the end of the play were dressed in Allied Forces uniforms ; the murders in the last scene are all carried out by gunfire , and at the end of the play swastikas rained down onto the stage . The play received mixed reviews with many critics wondering why Seale had chosen to associate the Andronici with Nazism , arguing that it created a mixed metaphor
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