Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJosette Simon seems born to play Cleopatra, but the dissection of tyranny in Julius Caesar makes it the thrilling highlight of this Roman double bill4/5 and 3/5Now is obviously the perfect time to launch a season tracking the disintegration of a mighty empire. But where Ivo van Hove's Roman Tragedies, recently at the Barbican, put the plays into modern dress, the RSC's ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM on March 24, 2017