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Julius Caesar.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20050429
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

Deborah Warner's extraordinary, modern-dress production, with a vast throng of extras, stirs excitement. The angry, uproarious plebeians achieve thrilling impact in the key forum scene, which is played out on wide marble steps enclosed by glass surrounds and crush barriers.

By contrast the psychological drama, centring on the conspiracy to kill Caesar and Brutus's restless tussle with his conscience, makes no big waves.

Ralph Fiennes's Mark Antony (above left, with John Shrapnel), looking like a cross between Caesar's valet and a male model, ...

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