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Theatre: Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, until March 17.

Theatre: Julius Caesar, > by William Shakespeare, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, until March 17.

Julius Caesar is a play full of incident; namely conspiracy, betrayal and murder. However, director Jason Byrne’s production of the play at the Abbey Theatre is so spare that it manages to dispense with all the drama.

While the dialogue and soliloquies of Shakespeare’s play are aphoristic in their application to the hypocrisy inherent in the pursuit of power – ...