Julius X Review: Power, Betrayal, and Harlem Swagger

Julius X Review: Power, Betrayal, and Harlem Swagger

The Folger's Julius X reimagines Shakespeare's Julius Caesar through Malcolm X’s story in a sharp, stylized production. The post Julius X Review: Power, Betrayal, and Harlem Swagger appeared first on Metro Weekly.

Julius X at Folger: A Revolutionary Remix of Shakespeare & Malcolm X - K Street Magazine

In Julius X, now on stage at Folger Theatre, playwright Al Letson doesn’t simply reimagine Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; he reconstructs it to fuse the life and legacy of Malcolm X with the ancient political intrigues of Rome. The result is neither traditional Shakespeare nor a straight Malcolm biography, but a kind of collision –sometimes messy, often electric — between Caesar’s time and the radical urgency of 1960s Harlem. Letson weaves Shakesp…