As a play about political betrayal that features an infamously brutal assassination, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has always required a bit of grit from its audience.
But the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production, with an all-female cast led by Dame Harriet Walter, is set to open with an astonishing 14 trigger warnings – advising less robust ticket holders about the use of plastic knives, plastic machine guns, and even fake blood.
The gripping political tragedy about the ambitious Roman dictator’s downfall at the hands of envious senators is famous for its ominous line advising Caesar to ‘beware the Ides of March’, a premonition
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