The Ides of March!
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Our annual excuse to share Rose Biggin's wonderful "Put to Silence" - a story about a story about a murder within a murder:
The director told me the aim was for Brutus, he told me Brutus deserved it, and he gave me a figure and a cash advance. He told me who was in on it: Julius Caesar, Cassius the Conspirator - and now me. They wanted somebody strong and reliable in the chorus, because they weren’t all as accustomed to the act as I was. They were all committed to the job, don’t get me wrong, he said; but until you’ve truly gone through with it, you don’t know for sure.