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A gentle reproach to Shakespeare

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

A few years ago, I fell hopelessly in love with Harriet Walter. It only lasted an hour or two: she was playing Brutus in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Julius Caesar, and there she was, aloof, damaged, burning with pride and suppressed sorrow.

The Donmar theatre’s production was set in a women’s prison, as if performed by inmates.

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