With Victoria and Richard at odds, Lidia-who keeps and feeds a variety of animals in her vagina-befriends Teddy and coerces him into non-consensual bondage scenarios.
From here, there is a comedic blur between three characters: Annabella, Harriet Lindsey, and Lidia, the latter of whom is confusingly (but amusingly) the captain's daughter.or is she? Victoria in turn announces that she wants a divorce and further reveals that Teddy is not Richard's natural son, which prompts Richard to claim that their unseen daughter Annabella is not Victoria's natural daughter. Pondering why they haven't been seated at the captain's table, Richard suggests that the "snub" may be a result of Victoria's less-than-noble past growing up on a pig farm in Indiana. Titanic opens in the ship's dining room, where the Tammurais (Richard, Victoria, and their son Teddy) are seated. In May, 1976, Titanic was moved off Broadway to the Van Dam Theater. David Dukes was set to play the part of Richard Tammurai, but left before rehearsals ended to replace John Wood in the Broadway play Travesties. In February 1976, the play premiered at the Direct Theatre in New York City. The play, which takes place on the RMS Titanic, was first staged at the Yale School of Drama in May, 1974. Titanic is a bizarre one-act play written by Christopher Durang.