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It's too brutal, i'm afraid; Julius Caesar THEATRE Lyric Hammersmith Dizzying direction, thunderous score and video are distracting in reheated Soviet-style thriller.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20050909
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH

PIONEERING theatre director David Farr has played disappointingly safe. He launches his artistic directorship of the Lyric by reviving his Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, mildly admired in 2004.

Farr's idea was and is to give a contemporary gloss to the over-familiar thriller by setting it in an unnamed, fragile democracy in the post-Soviet Union orbit.

This reheated version will not set the Thames on fire, even though it crackles with all the right tension, foreboding and volatility. For Farr's updating and fairly ...

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