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...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...
...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?...
...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...
Kaufman, the Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, was submitted for a tenure position by the sociology department in October 2005. Ordinarily the recommendation would have been reviewed within an academic year by an ad hoc committee composed of both Harvard professors outside the candidate’s department and professors from universities around the country within the same discipline. Instead the committee, presided over by Bok, met this March—postponing the decision whether to grant Kaufman tenure by nearly one year...