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Julius Caesar
Opens: 14/05/2009 Closes: 01/10/2009
The Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Manipulation, backhanded politics and assassination – no, not the latest cabinet meeting, but one of the Bard’s first visits to the Roman world, in which Julius Caesar’s furious ambition has bloody consequences. Making her RSC debut, Lucy Bailey directs this new production starring Stratford veteran Greg Hicks.
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The Telegraph“Hicks captures the mixture of grandiosity and fearful frailty...” The moment Mark Anthony picks up a severed head and casually throws it at Octavius Caesar as if it were a rugby ball, encapsulates the bitter, violent, blackly comic atmosphere of this production.
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Financial Times“Caesar himself is a very Greg Hicks role...” Rome may have been far less ordered than we usually imagine, but this is a production in which mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
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this is london“Bailey's Rome is a superstitious, combustible place... ” Nifty deployment of movable video screens by designer William Dudley means constant images of a baying, swaying mob, ready to be won over by rabble‑rousing oratory.
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The Independent“This is a remarkable transformation of this play...” The Roman populace has been imagined by director Lucy Bailey and designer William Dudley as a frieze of humanity, replicated on gauze screens, based on the muscular attitudes of the Elgin Marbles and the moving photographs of Eadweard Muybridge.
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The Times“Bailey's production is a savage parable...” The company acting, even on this hostile stage, is impeccable. William Dudley’s brilliantly inventive set creates images of huge crowds: the people of Rome who can be led into civil wars by power-crazed politicians.
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The Stage“Primitive superstition rules in fearsome displays...” Greg Hicks’ Caesar is bloodless and sardonic, his contempt, fear and occasional playfulness expressed as much with his face as with his speech. This is political upheaval as never before, with raw emotion like an open wound.
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Guardian“Caesar's assassination is a prolonged, messy fight to the death...” As a director Lucy Bailey is clearly at home in ancient Rome: she gave us a blackly sardonic Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe; now she comes up with a visceral RSC Julius Caesar that certainly captures the chaos of a divided city.
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