after joking about body art plans during 'midlife crisis' Stacey Solomon unveils adorable ring finger tattoo in tribute to her husband Joe Swash. Still, this troupe is only on its third RSC play, so perhaps we will see progress - or even better, hear it. I may be losing my hearing, but from the second row of the stalls I found many lines hard to hear.Ī lad called Oliver Ryan, playing the conspirator Casca, seems to have a really interesting delivery, but could remove all doubt by making sure that he is audible. The other niggle with this production - apart from perhaps a surfeit of Hammer House of Horror-style screams - is some of the enunciation. Crowd scenes are accentuated by clumsily-made clips of computerised figures cheering and booing and shaking their fists. The bad news is that computer graphics have reached the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hannah Young has the best of the women's roles with the stoic Portia. One of the greatest skills in politics is to convey disloyalty without actually saying as much.īrutus (Sam Troughton) manages not to betray Caesar, yet Cassius knows he has whetted his treachery. Cassius probes gently to test leading Romans' loyalty to the over-ambitious Caesar. The building of the conspiracy against Caesar is fascinating for anyone interested in politics. ![]() Mr Mackay could still his hands in the early scenes - such a skilled plotter would surely not windmill quite so much - but he comes into his own as Brutus's chief of staff. His chubbiness makes the lean, hungry look of Cassius (John Mackay) all the greater. This is a general who understands human greed - specifically, the desire of the Roman populus to discover what was in Caesar's will. Mr D'Silva gives us a subtle version of Antony's 'lend me your ears' speech, not overdoing the business about Brutus being an honourable man. He does make a cadaverous ghost, even if it's something of a reprise of his Old Hamlet routine from four years ago.ĭarrell D'Silva's Mark Antony is a portlier, more congenial presence. Anyway, with his Dalek nasality, his precise consonants and his unpredictable rhythms, Mr Hicks is as watchable as ever.
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