Though the play, being more than 400 years old, never mentions TrumpвЂ™s name, the resemblance was noted by critics who were present at the showвЂ™s previews (which began in May), and their reviews were picked up by the broader conservative media. Right-wing outlets such as Breitbart and Fox News expressed horror over the Public TheaterвЂ™s particular staging of the play, in which a blond, coiffed politician who resembles the US president - he tweets from a golden bathtub and wears a red tie, and his wife has a Slavic accent - is assassinated in Act III beneath an American flag, by a cast that contains women and minorities. The uproar all stems from one key creative decision: namely, portraying Julius Caesar as Donald Trump.Д®ven before the production officially debuted, Julius Caesar was drawn into the perpetual outrage machine that powers modern American political media. Then, FridayвЂ™s performance was interrupted by two protesters, one of whom crashed the stage stage to yell, вЂњStop the normalization of political violence against the right!' SundayвЂ™s final performance was interrupted by a similar event. Early in the outrage cycle came the cancellation of two corporate sponsorships. For decades, conservatives have darkly warned that failing to teach the Western canon of literature to students - that deeming books and plays by dead white guys irrelevant to todayвЂ™s concerns - would lead to disastrous consequences.ДЇor its annual Shakespeare in the Park program, New York CityвЂ™s Public Theater mounted a production of William ShakespeareвЂ™s 1599 play Julius Caesar in Central Park - a play that, among other things, strongly warns those who commit political violence, even in service of their country, about the futility of their actions.Д«ut right before its opening night on Monday, June 12, the production was met with conservative outrage, which continued all throughout its short run (Sunday marked the last performance, as planned) and is still going strong.

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