Julius Caesar, RSC, Barbican review - Roman bromance plays straight
Angus Jackson's traditional staging opens the the Rome MMXVII season Even more than some of Shakespeare's other histories, Julius Caesar inevitably offers itself to "topical interpretation", a Rorschach test of a play which directors short of an original idea can extrapolate to project their own political aperçus upon. Over the last century, Ancient Rome's most famous autocrat has been endlessly re-spun as a …