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One thing we think we know:Caesaris a go-to in politically tumultuous moments.
It attractsnow more than evermarketing language like a magnet draws iron filings.
Coopers Rome is a janky collection of broken white drywall and plastic sheeting.
The senators and soldiers who people this Rome are, in Raquel Barretos costumes, a basically modern lot.
Sometimes they carry around plastic five-gallon construction buckets, investing them with great significance.
Much is effortful here, but nothing is scary.
Though they rally themselves back into a united front, exiting with a chant of Liberty!
Its a pity then that the main players leave us relatively cold.
Its the danger of taking the characters avowed philosophy of Stoicism too much at its word.
Julius Caesaris at Theatre for a New Audience through April 28.
