Theatre Review: Julius Caesar @ Donmar Warehouse
This all-female production is a brutal affair.
This all-female production is a brutal affair.
Two first rate counter-tenors appear in this new production of Handel’s masterpiece.
Works from the 18th to 20th centuries make this a bumper packed season.
Shakespeare’s political thriller pulses with vibrant freshness in this African setting from the RSC.
Friends, Londonists, commuters,
Lend me your eyes.
I come to praise Caesar, not to bury it.
The good that men do lives on after them,
Their works oft inspire and amaze.
So let it be with Shakespeare…
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