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Article: Partying hearty with Julius Caesar
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
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- July 17, 2009
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If you're going to see "Julius Caesar," get there way before the
Ides of March.
"Oh yes," said Helen Borgers, "you don't want to miss the
beginning, because the beginning is spectacular."
Usually, what people remember about the Shakespeare play is the
scene in the Roman Forum where the conspirators attack Caesar. Or
maybe it's Mark Antony's famous oration that begins "Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
But the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's production, directed by
Borgers in the company's 11th free summer Shakespeare festival, may
change that.
"We have a huge opening sequence I wrote that's not actually in
the play," she said in a phone interview last week. "We're re- ...