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Lend them your ears: Julius Caesar reimagined
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Lend them your ears: Julius Caesar reimagined

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Austin Tichenor

Two new productions, Al Letson’s Julius X and the Q Brothers Collective’s Rome Sweet Rome, explore contemporary themes of political upheaval and personal betrayal while illuminating aspects of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar we might have missed. 

The space between Julius Caesar and Malcolm X
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The space between Julius Caesar and Malcolm X

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Al Letson’s play Julius X acts as a sort of Venn diagram that allows us to twice witness a familiar text (Julius Caesar), with a harsh and violent moment of American history that marked a significant contest waged by Black Americans for freedom and equality.