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First Encounters: Julius Caesar review – so thrilling it kept a hall full of teens in pin-drop silence

Ormiston Bushfield Academy, Peterborough An intro to Shakespeare doesn’t get any better than the RSC’s revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female prison-set production led by Harriet Walter, which is touring schools The auditorium is stripped bare – a repurposed hall whose ascending seating resembles an amphitheatre but with plastic chairs. This show could pass for a school production, in appearance, if you didn’t know…

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