Q Theatre, October 5 3/10 Staging Julius Caesar necessitates using some of the finest verse in Shakespeare’s canon to paper over the play’s structural and narrative fault-lines. Enthral an audience with this verse, dispersed between Antony, Brutus, Cassius and Calphurnia, and the other dimension, the politics of backstabbing, are –…
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Drama Theatre, September 14 7/10 Karl Marx thought it religion that stupefied us into obeisance. Writing 127 years later, Dario Fo astutely hit upon what had become the new mass opiate: scandal – and this nearly half a century before Trump, fake news and social media! Imagine the Italian playwright’s…
Pop-up Globe, September 12 4.5/10 Shylock’s demented desire for a pound of Antonio’s flesh (with all its anti-Semitic type-casting implications) makes him the supposed villain of this comedy. But for whom, exactly, are we supposed to cheering? Portia? She is willing to accept an airheaded, money-grubbing playboy to share her…