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...MOST STRIKING theatrical effect in the Boston Shakespeare Company's current production of Julius Caesar is one that Shakespeare put there himself. In Act III, when Caesar's rebellious lieutenants have stabbed him to death. Brutus proposes a symbolic gesture over the body...
...bathe our hands in Caesar's blood...
...mangle a script in the interests of originally; their director's Romeo and Juliet was set mysteriously and superfluously in modern-day Belfast, and Bill Coe's Memlet offered the truly creative line-reading "To be, or not?... To be!" But now the fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues of an almost lost art: the straight reading. Unaffected period costumes, a simple Roman-looking set, and very alert casting give the audience a secure sense of a play with dynamism and direction...
...director tackling Caesar must contend with the plot's most frequently criticized peculiarity--the apparent central character disappears two acts before final curtain, leaving the focus of the play where it has been hovering all along, on Brutus. Director Gavin Cameron-Webb clearly follows this school and gives it an extra push; Joe Gargiulo as Caesar is almost a caricature, stiff and monarchical with a booming voice. He flat-out yells a good portion of his lines, but the exaggeration seems called for: it fits the mood...
...Capone, the Caesar of the Chicago gangland, was never convicted of murder, robbery, kidnaping, extortion or even bootlegging. But Treasury agents nailed him for evading payment of $1.2 million in taxes from 1924 to 1929, and the mobster was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison in Atlanta...