Julius Caesar
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 29, 2011
Closed Aug 13, 2011
Opened Jul 29, 2011
Closed Aug 13, 2011
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is both a political thriller and a character study about the treacherous assassination of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar led by co-conspirators Brutus and Cassius, who fear the leader has become too powerful.
Julius Caesar replaces the previously announced production of Antony & Cleopatra.
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There's a visceral and even sometimes thrilling savagery inherent in Lucy Bailey's staging of Julius Caesar, which the Royal Shakespeare Company is now performing in rep at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. It's certainly a robust interpretation, but in overly concentrating on the ambience of the production, Bailey and the company often lose sight of the human drama that propels the Bard's Roman tragedy.
There's little question that the opening sequence that Bailey has added for the show is unforgettable. Two filthy, loinclothed young men, Rome's mythical founders Romulus (Tunji Kasim) and Remus (Joseph Arkley), claw, bite and wrestle, grunting like animals, [...]