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...They do so, but Antony (Peter C. Shields ’09), Caesar’s right-hand man, shifts public opinion against Brutus and Cassius. The pair flees the city, fighting a losing battle against the new ruling Triumvirate outside Rome. Salas specially adapted Shakespeare’s script for the Loeb Ex production, keeping the story to a snappy two hours by dwelling on the events leading up to the assassination and speeding through those that follow...
...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...
...great benefit of the production’s focus on the conspirators was that Gentry and Berman, who play Brutus and Cassius respectively, were the standouts of the cast. Gentry, who is always fantastic, played the stoic Brutus with the requisite gravity and intensity, but with enough emotion so that he wasn’t just a cipher...
...Berman’s Cassius was the perfect foil to Brutus: energetic and passionate where Brutus was calm and considered. Berman seemed perpetually on the verge of attacking someone, making the character fiery and the play livelier. At one point Cassius and Brutus came to blows, proving that both wield a mean fencing sword...
...Shields was also excellent. As Antony, he delivered the funeral oration—his big moment in what could otherwise be considered a Brutus and Cassius show—with fantastic emotion and more than a touch of the manipulation, making it obvious why the speech could shift public opinion so rapidly...