Japan? 'Julius Caesar' by Lantern intriguing but distracting
Joe Guzman (left) as Cassius and Forrest McClendon as Julius
Caesar in the Lantern Theater Company production. Joe Guzman
(left) as Cassius and Forrest McClendon as Julius Caesar in the
Lantern Theater Company production. (MARK GARVIN) Posted:
February 15, 2014  Is there a more terrifying line than Mark
Antony's in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!' And let
slip the dogs of war"?  This powerful play is about self-deluded
warrior-politicians; it is filled with conspiracy, ambition,
corruption, betrayal, and tyranny. And if the leaders are
vicious, the public, easily manipulated, is worse. The Lantern
Theatre production, under the direction of Charles McMahon, is
both intriguing and frustrating.  Julius Caesar is a play for
all times, as Shakespeare's plays always turn out to be, whether
the setting is ancient Rome or the forest of Arden. And because
of this universality - when in human history has there not been
a war or an unscrupulous pol