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...NOTEBOOK Branders Coach Pete Varney '71 is the only Harvard graduate who has played in the major leagues. Crimson 19, Judges 3 BRANDEIS ab r h bi Caesar cl 3 1 1 0 Raposa if 1 0 0 0 Russell 3b 4 1 0 0 Reid 1b 3 0 1 0 Datre rf 4 0 0 1 Follette c 4 1 1 0 Butterfield dh 2 0 0 0 Bonille ss 4 0 1 0 Hughes 2b 3 0 1 0 Pacheco if 2 0 1 0 Wilson 1f 1 0 0 0 Tedeschi dh 2 0 0 0 Total...
...beginning of Julius Caesar, before Caesar's assassination, Casca has a premonition of disaster that he reports to Cicero: "Against the Capitol I met a lion, who glared at me, and went surly by." The implication is that in every civilization, however lofty, a lion always roams the streets; the jungle never entirely disappears. What most men fear is a lion in the soul. Women, too, perhaps, but not in the matter of rape. That is male terrain, the masculine jungle. And no man can glimpse it, even at a distance, without fury and bewilderment at his monstrous capabilities...
OTHER DETAILS are handled in equally open-eyed fashion. Carter Reardon as Cassius, the driving force behind the conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus...
...real beneficiary of this direct approach, of course, is Henry Woronicz as Mark Antony, whose orations over the dead Caesar--not just the famous "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," but the Machiavellian masterpieces that follow--provide a classic example of words that don't need stagecraft to make them work. True, the otherwise subtle lighting design turns a bit blatant for the great funeral speech, dropping to a single spotlight as soon as Antony begins to speak, spectators' yells coming out of the near-pitch dark. Even that tactic, though, carries a certain ingenuous charm; why shouldn't Woronicz and director Cameron...
...sticking exactly to original milieus, will take over the company's directorship after the current season ends; whatever his plans, though, he is fortunate to be meeting up with a group whose feet, at long last, seem to have regained contact with the theatrical ground. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar appears, at the very least, to know where it is. And, as everyone knows, it's a lot easier from there to figure out where you're going...