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...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...
...stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue-scrim sky, and the silhouetted monarch simply walks across it, stops, speaks, and continues on his way. The audience's chills are real...
...annual income of working members of farming families is expected to plummet from $10,500 last year to $2,000. Ranchers' problems are in turn spilling over to related businesses. Austin Ryan, who sells rural machinery in Warracknabeal, Victoria, has cut his staff from 28 to three. Kevin Webb of Leeton, New South Wales, who is accustomed to selling up to 320 bins of wheat a season, has sold only four this year. Small outposts, which have no source of revenue outside of farming, may vanish altogether...
...Justice Department has stepped in to make sure Cicero is bothered It charges that Cicero officials have gone out of their way to violate two federal laws by keeping blacks off the municipal payroll and preventing blacks from moving into town at all. U.S. Attorney Dan Webb calls it perhaps "the most egregious, aggravated case of race discrimination" his office has ever prosecuted. The statistical evidence is stark. The 1980 census found only 74 blacks in a population of 61,232, despite the fact that adjacent Chicago is 40% black. Not one of Cicero's schoolchildren is black...
...Welch should not feel too smug, because minutes later Chloé Webb, 24, takes her on as well...