Julius Caesar Play
All hail RSC's 'Julius Caesar'
With "Julius Caesar," its fifth and last production at the Park Avenue Armory, the Royal Shakespeare Company's local season ends in an orgy of violence and gore.
Director Lucy Bailey could have gone easy on us since the play really is about the power of words: Characters spread rumors to undermine enemies, talk others into doing things they may or may not be ready for, manipulate the mood of a crowd.
Maybe that's why this tragedy is so densely packed with some of the Bard's most memorable lines and tirades, including Mark Antony's appeal starting with "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
But in Bailey's staging, speech and brutal physicality go hand in hand.
Provocatively, she starts off with a wordless scene in which Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of Rome, engage in a furious brawl, grunting and panting like feral dogs. The elite politicians and soldiers who follow them onstage are more articulate, but no less vicious.
Fans of the HBO series "Rome" will be familiar with both the free-flowing hemoglobin and the general plot. The big question is how to solve a problem like Julius Caesar (Greg Hicks), whom his peer Cassius (John Mackay) thinks is becoming too big for his toga -- refreshingly, the show sticks to period-ish swords and sandals instead of going for the usual neo-fascist update.
Cassius and his allies win the loyal Marcus Brutus (Sam Troughton) over to their cause. Anticipating potential wrongdoings, Brutus muses, "The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins remorse from power." But eradicating a potential good leader may not be a better option.
The plotters collectively murder Caesar, but things don't get any easier afterward. To which we could have told them: Duh! Few plays offer such visionary insights into the conquest and exercise of power, and into misguided ambition.
Though she loses steam in the show's final hour, Bailey creates a spectacle of the highest order in the first two. She projects digital duplicates of the cast to create the illusion of crowds, and summons Django Bates' horn-heavy, dissonant music to further the general sense of impending doom. Like the play's characters, this director goes for the jugular.
Mostly, the actors follow suit, with the exception of Hicks. He is superb in "King Lear," but here he largely recycles the stiff posture and unblinking glare he uses as Leontes in "The Winter's Tale." Less predictable is Darrell D'Silva's burly, rambunctious Mark Antony, a perfect foil for Mackay's coldly calculating Cassius.
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With "Julius Caesar," its fifth and last production at the Park Avenue Armory, the Royal Shakespeare Company's local season ends in an orgy of violence and gore. Director Lucy Bailey could have gone easy on us since the play really is about the power
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"Julius Caesar." This bold, busy staging of a play about another political assassination, in ancient Rome, has won OSF some of its best reviews this season. I hoped to get on board. But for me, director Amanda Dehnert's overheated, multiconcept-driven
those who would like to check out Julius Caesar for the 118th time will be able to do so. And perhaps they won't be sorry, as this great-looking Joseph L. Mankiewicz effort remains one of the best-liked film adaptations of a Shakespeare play.
The company performed a 1930s-inspired Julius Caesar directed by Amy Holtcamp in June, a '50s-inspired Twelfth Night directed by Shad Willingham in July and A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by the All Things Shakespeare student company and directed
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To see the future one must only look to the past. This new production of Julius Caesar brings us behind the scenes as yet another leader is forced from office.
Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new Associate Artistic Director, takes this momentous piece of Roman history and transports it to the corridors of backroom politics.
Like many before him and after him, Julius Caesar (Alex Menglet) had the support of the people but the loathing of the players.
While the ruler goes in search of ways to further expand his power, the conniving Cassius (Kate Mulvany) persuades poor patriotic Brutus to join a conspiracy bent on bringing the leader down.
But not even a front-man of Brutus’ unimpeachable integrity could avert the total and utter disaster their daggers set in motion.
And after all the back-stabbing and power-grabbing, with the politicians claiming that their actions are ‘for the good of the country’, what we learn in the end is that violence will only beget violence.
Director, Peter Evans says: “I find this story constantly relevant. We witness the original pre-emptive strike and the irony of the ‘honourable assassination’ with all the carnage that a power vacuum creates.
“Julius Caesar is a play that is never out of date, in fact feels today relentlessly modern.”
HerCanberra has five double passes to the 2pm matinee performance of Julius Caesar at the Canberra Theatre on Saturday, 6 August. Just one favourite?! Okay then… at a pinch it would have to be … umm … still thinking … Much Ado About Nothing. I think. Or Hamlet? It could also be A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Okay, okay, I have to pick one. I’ll choose Hamlet. Shakespeare taught me so much through that beautiful play. Can we have an easier question next time?! Haha, thanks for the fabulous comp And the winners are, as per numbers picked by random.org (drum roll please!) Jen (2), Lisa (4), Karen (5), Madeline (10) and Sam (who was number 16 and who emailed me her answer after getting the HC daily email) I’ll be in touch by email to get your details and you’ll be able to pick your tickets up from the box office on the day. A reminder that the performance is at 2pm, Saturday 6 August. Enjoy!
Nice play ! ----Julius Caesar on Granville Island.
@ I like Julius Caesar...it's probably my 2nd fav Shakespeare play. MacBeth is my all time fav
Mysterious. Such power as the only (witchy) woman in the play, torn between 3 men - one of which is a young Julius Caesar. @
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