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There's Claudia Wayop (Skip Sneeringer '94), who wants to make her boorish husband Crassus Canbee (J.C. Wolfgang Murad' 95) successor to Emperor Pompey Circumstance (Stephen P. Lucado' 94). (Claudia Wayop...
...cast of characters--following the Pudding tradition of puns and word play--features such names as "Pompey Circumstance," "Nero Sighted" and "Marc Anatomy...
...circus used to be advertised, by the elephant-count. In the late nineteenth century, circus owners competed for the elephant crown. In 1881, Barnum had four elephants, Forepaugh had five, and the Sells Brothers called their gig the "Great European Seven Elephant Railroad Show." No match for Pompey, who is 61 B.C. advertised a celebration at the Circus Maximus in his own honor and promised that five hundred lions and twenty pachyderms would be slain...
...dramatic business: Caesar arrives in Egypt and is seduced by the lips and legs of Cleopatra, who wants his aid in deposing her brother Ptolemy, the king of Egypt. The typically non-historical subplot stars Cornelia and her son Sestro, who are out for revenge after Ptolemy slays paterfamilias Pompey as a gift to Caesar and an excuse to put the moves on Cornelia himself...
...production is full of independently satisfying results its music, visual effects, and acting. Of the minor characters, Ben Halley Jr. as the Provost, Jeremy Geidt as Escalus, and John Bottoms as Pompey turn in strong performances. But as a whole Andrei Belgrader's direction lacks a sufficiently strong vision of the play as a whole to dominate the individual elements and fuse them into a coherent interpretation, something intellectual satisfying rather than merely titillating...