Royal shakespeare company julius caesar12/12/2023 Is it going to be one of those where they appear in modern day clothes and get changed … no. Costume? What costume? Apparently there isn’t any. This is going to be exciting … then my eyes run over the cast who are dancing. Vague grey shapes are projected on the screen. There is a vigorous dance stomp routine start with wolf howls, loud trombone roaring, wails. What set?Īt the start a trombone player appears with a singer and a guitarist, up on high above the screen. A grey bare stage with a grey projection screen. We have to dismiss this and regard this vicious Roman without saying He had it coming! Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy paints Caesar as the genocidal mass murderer that he actually was. You’ll never get members of the Richard III Society to admire Richard III or French patriots to love Henry V. There’s always the issue of Shakespeare and history and no one can tweak the text enough to revise his versions. After a female Prospero at the RSC and with a female Shylock coming, is it not going over the top? A female Brutus? A female Cassius? I’m going into the theatre needing some persuading. This is the play that teachers always said should be a set book only in boys’ schools, because there were so few female roles and the plot wasn’t one they found appealed. No pictures ahead of press night, but will add as they become available. Full price? (£75 each at the front, or five times the price of Poole Lighthouse last Tuesday). I have been castigated in the past for reviewing before press night, but I have my own rule. The good news: this is touring the country until June. View from the RSC Restaurant floor before the play Oddly Brutus is missing from the photo gallery. The actual programme is way better in putting them into sections. Everyone feels on an even keel and that hinders a little.Īnnabel Baldwin (Soothsayer) and Joshua Dunn (Cinna The Poet).Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon Vize and Tomas Palmer costume design gives a modern but casual feel, but there’s no sense of those in power having better clothes or anything. A black side of the cube is used for Adam Sinclair’s animations to be projected on. Rozanna Vize’s set consists of a huge cube which revolves to become a place where the ever increasing souls of the dead gather to loom over proceedings. The steering of the text feels weakened, and it feels at times that the actors are fighting a losing battle with their powerful performances against some of the choices they are given to play against or with. It slightly weakens this brutal act by the conspirators. As Caesar meets his inevitable end, it’s done more with slaps to his body covered in black oil rather than any daggers. Out is any togas, weapons and even characters feel condensed here. Jimena Larraguivel (Calpurnia) and Nigel Barrett (Julius Caesar). With The Tempest firmly blown over the Royal Shakespeare Company next offer a striking new production of Julius Caesar continuing their 2023 theme of ‘power shifts’.ĭirector Arti Banerjee helms this new production which whilst being an enjoyable watch it is full of ideas that don’t fully formulate.
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