JULIUS CAESAR
By William Shakespeare
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Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
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Director - Jonathan Munby
Designer - Alexander Dodge
Costume Designer – Linda Cho
Lighting Designer – Philip Rosenburgh
Music / Sound - Lindsay Jones
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… extraordinarily well-charted and briskly paced production, many of the scenes fuse together with sudden and quite dazzling fullness entire environments quickly envelope you, and Munby and his designers have thought up a plethora of striking images … Visually thrilling, exciting and richly wrought…you won’t have any trouble embracing this production
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Under the imaginative direction of Jonathan Munby, the bard’s words get a slap of reality and then a passionate gut punch. This is not politics like usual. And it’s better than any action thriller because the script is tried and true. Julius Caesar is a classic re-mix for modern audiences.
THE FOURTH WALSH
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This Chicago-debut staging at Chicago Shakespeare by British director Jonathan Munby is spectacularly cinematic, rampaging across, over and around Alexander Dodge’s sprawling marble set
STAGE AND CINEMA
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Modernized and picture-perfectly true to Bard… the concept devoutly serves the play, and you have something as bold, provocative and yet luminous as director Jonathan Munby’s modernized Julius Caesar at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
CHICAGO IN THE AISLE
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The crucial arguments between Cassius and Brutus are expertly done
CHICAGO SUN TIMES