Imperium: Dictator

...Gielgud, Shaftesbury Avenue

....'Adapter Mike Poulton gives Cicero's final words as: “Try and make a decent job of it. No fumbling.” I wish I could say there had been no fumbling in this gargantuan undertaking...
...A substantial disappointment is how seldom Poulton introduces poetry into proceedings, most glaringly apparent when we bump into incidents more magnificently evoked by the Bard. The scarcity of rhetorical flourishes is a puzzle too...
...To quote Cicero: “Quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia”, or, ‘how great a revenue parsimony can be’. Less – ie one much pithier play – would achieve more...
...caveat emptor.'
Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph

...My friend's thoughts on the evening