`Julius Cesar`: Edinburgh Review
(World News UK)

Shot live and set in a prison, this rough, all-female Shakesperean production is urgent, diverse and relevant Dir. Phyllida Lloyd. UK. 2017. 113 mins. Director Phyllida Lloyd delivers a riposte to the idea that cinema derived from theatre is somehow a static, inflexible affair with her vital all-female production of Julius Caesar. Set in a women´s prison, and derived from her touring Donmar Warehouse trilogy (which also included The Tempest and Henry IV), this live-shot show (over two nights) is a hybrid of theatre, event cinema and something more shockingly intimate and connective. This is dynamic theatre, much more close-up and urgent than event cinema Set to compete at the Edinburgh Film...