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...Julius Caesar” is a play that is often as much about the time it is staged as the period it depicts. Despite the assertion of co-directors Robert D. Salas ’08 and Winter Mead ’08 that the play’s language was the focus of the production, the version produced by Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08, who is also a Crimson magazine editor, made several gestures toward the present. But the modern elements of the show never coalesced into clear ideas, resulting in a well done but ultimately uninspiring...
...plot of the play, which ran at the Loeb Experimental Theatre through March 24, is well known: Fearing that Julius Caesar (Mead) may be crowned Emperor of Rome, a group of Roman citizens, led by Brutus (Jon E. Gentry ‘07) and Cassius (Alexander J. Berman ‘10), plan to assassinate...
...Julius Caesar” is a malleable play: It is adaptable to many themes, and Mead and Salas made the Loeb Ex version about the actions and eventual downfall of Brutus and Cassius. It seemed at times that it might have become a play about current events, or political truths, but the production never quite reached that point. It worked quite well, however, as a showcase for some great acting and for the language and story of the play itself—a feature that on its own is enough to recommend the show...
...read your story. Now I can't escape the conclusion that the solution to Iraq's problems cannot be military. Shi'ites and Sunnis have to sort this one out themselves, and the most the U.S. can do is try to be an honest broker between them. George Julius Xavier, New York City...
...read your story. Now I can't escape the conclusion that the solution to Iraq's problems cannot be military. Shi'ites and Sunnis have to sort this one out themselves, and the most the U.S. can do is try to be an honest broker between them. George Julius Xavier, NEW YORK CITY...