A c21st assassination of Caesar once again for his crimes of overthrowing Roman 'democracy', full of expert talking heads pontificating on relevancies on modern populism. The problem is Caesar had antecedents which this production doesn't cover that also weakened the Republican institutions. So, if there was no Caesar, there would be another. Caesar brought to a head the direction of travel already breaking the system in place. What he recognised perhaps was this evolution of its system was a natural one. One of centralisation of power, which was the rule rather than the outlier. The show's defect therefore is context, which it jettisons for current relevance. Reinterpretation is natural in history, but here it seems to sacrifice too much on the altar of seeing history as a tool to see our world in its light, while at the same time reading into the past the horror of current instability and possibility of political upheaval. These come to all civilizations. Caesar was a bastard, but sometimes history is little more than having a go at the one who succeeded for a time, and left the greatest impression because of his utilisation of writing his own legacy before he came to power like many other political figures after him, and whom he formed relationships with and the mode of his death.