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Modern-world setting intensifies `Julius Caesar'.(Reviews)(Review)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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March 10, 2002
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Byline: Review by FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard
A WORLD AT WAR. Cold-blooded assassins slaughtering their leader. Avengers methodically tracking down the killers. It's all there in Laird Williamson's intense production of William Shakespeare's potboiler, "Julius Caesar."
An aggressive director who grabs the audience by the throat at the outset and never lets go, Williamson has transported Shakespeare's tragedy from Roman times to a modern setting - a bold move that drives the tale of deceit and treachery with uncommon urgency.
In Williamson's ...
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