Talky 'Caligula' loses steam.(SHOW)(THEATER)

The Washington Times | October 19, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Incest, murders on an epic scale, orgiastic excesses - the Roman emperor Caligula did all this and more, supposedly because he considered himself a god (at one point proclaiming himself the brother of Jupiter and the incarnation of Venus) and therefore above mortal laws and morals.

In Albert Camus' shrewd and frequently fanciful interpretation of the Caligula myth, strikingly staged by the Washington Shakespeare Company under the direction of Christopher Henley, the emperor is seen as a philosophical soul who ...

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