Review: Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare)
It does a lot with very little, but this stripped-back touring production doesn’t always transmit the power of Shakespeare’s play.
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist since the 1990s, interviewing the likes of Sir Andrew Davis and Renée Fleming, and contributing to publications such as The Age and Opera (UK). Based in Melbourne, she’s passionate about opera, theatre and anything Baroque.
It does a lot with very little, but this stripped-back touring production doesn’t always transmit the power of Shakespeare’s play.
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