Julius Caesar
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Synopsis
Victorious and valiant, yet proud and tyrannical, Julius Caesar is murdered by his closest allies. But the assassination divides Rome and bitter war begins.
Our Review:
11 January 2011
Is Julius Caesar a play about the struggle for tyranny or a warning to conspirators as to what will happen when the natural order is overturned? Or is it, as Lucy Bailey’s production suggests a play that portrays what happens in a society where violence is the natural scheme of things?
Anyone who saw Bailey’s version of Macbeth at the Globe would be well aware that she’s not shy about gore. There’s blood right from the start, with an opening scene of Romulus or Remus engaged in their bloody fight to the death. The implication is plain: Rome is a particularly bloody place, founded on violence and maintained by violence.
All of which makes Sam Troughton’s pensive, softly-spoken Brutus more impressive; much more of a philosopher than a man of action, he seemed strangely out of place in such a bloody world. I was less impressed by John Mackay’s Cassius, who seemed to driven neither by...
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David Baxter - 28 January 2011:
With a story containing an assassination, political intrigue, civil war and countless deaths, it's a bit of a surprise to have to concede that Julius Caeasar is frankly rather dull. Lucy Bailey does her best to create more excitement although the blood and gore is substantially reduced from her Titus Andronicus at the Globe. William Dudley makes exceptional use of video screens to conjure up Rome's seething proletariat or massed ranks of legionnaires. Greg Hicks wasn't sufficiently autocratic as Caesar to justify his fate but Sam Troughton was excellent as a doubt-ridden Brutus, even if his frequent soliloquies did much to add to the longuers. Daniel D'Silva was an impressively physical Mark Anthony and his impassioned eulogy to Caesar was the undoubted highlight. There was also a nice cameo from Hannah Young as the tragic Portia (Mrs. Brutus), one of only two female characters, which might be part of the problem with this play. Even Shakespeare is entitled to the odd play which does not live up to his genius, or maybe the RSC has been outshone by HBO and their vibrant, if inaccurate, portrayal of ancient Rome....
Cast
Joseph Arkley (Remus/Artemidorus/Octavius)
Adam Burton (Cimber/Titnius)
Brian Doherty (Decius Brutus/Poet)
Darrell D'Silva (Mark Antony)
Noma Dumezweni (Calphurnia)
Phillip Edgerley (Flavius/Popilius/Antony's Servan/Volumnius)
James Gale (Cicero/Caesar's Servant/Lepidus/Dardanius)
Gruffudd Glun (Cinna the Conspirator/Young Cato)
Paul Hamilton (Caius Ligarius/Messala)
Greg Hicks (Julius Caesar)
Tunji Kasim (Romulus/Lucius)
John Mackay (Cassius)
Patrick Romer (Murullus/Publius/Cinna the Poet)
David Rubin (Trebonius/Lucilius)
Oliver Ryan (Casca Pindarus)
Simone Saunders (Calphurnia's Servant)
Sam Troughton (Marcus Brutus)
Larrington Walker (Soothsay/Octavius's Servant)
Kirsty Woodward (Priestess)
Hannah Young (Portia)
Samantha Young (Soothsayer's Acoltye)
Creative
Shakespeare (Author)
Royal Shakespeare Company (Company)
Lucy Bailey (Director)
William Dudley (and video) (Design)
Kotini Dimou (Costume)
Oliver Fenwick (Lighting)
Sarah Dowling (movement) (Director)
Django Bates (Music)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
Nathalie Maury (associate designer) (Design)
Philip d'Orleans (fights) (Director)
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