"Et tu, Ignatieff?"

This came up in my Google Reader this morning and I happen to think it has potential...although, certainly, time sensitive. Act quickly, producers...it may become irrelevant and obsolete at any moment.

Click the link above and you will find the plan of another theatre blogger for a production of Julius Caesar set in our modern Canadian political climate. He presents an interesting cast of characters...feasible, certainly.

I, for one, am not tired of Shakespeare re-imagined...so long as productions don't force the play to fit the modern parallel. Rather, the play should be as it is, adjustments as minor as possible, and if it really works, the parallel scenario should be manipulated subtly to illustrate the point of the production.

The reason we still read, produce, perform Shakespeare is because his works are still relevant. And sometimes it takes losing the Elizabethan garb to make it more widely accessible.

I, for one, would not only buy a ticket, I would play a part.