![]() Both Caesar and Cleopatra land on the Moulton stage without benefit of parachutes, but also without archaic conceits that might have crippled the revival of a 91-year-old play. The sometimes-very-funny results have a salubrious effect perhaps not as distant from Shaw’s original intent as might be presumed.Īfter all, “Caesar and Cleopatra” was meant to bring the title characters back to earth from the pretentious heights of what Shaw called Sardoodledom and Bardolatry, to which they’d been elevated by a 19th-Century theatrical tradition that he abhored. The point is that this lavishly mounted, warmly lit, handsomely costumed Laguna production treats the play from beginning to end with a certain lightness of touch that can be suggestively illuminating. ![]() ![]() Shaw might have cringed at the liberties taken with his text, but that is not the point. ![]()
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