Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon The Bacchae, Printing Press Rooms, Northampton The Physicists, Donmar, London
Feel the heat. The RSC has just set Julius Caesar thrillingly ablaze. Shakespeare's Roman play is often, wrongly, considered cold and colourless. Now, though, this political drama is scorchingly reinvigorated in Gregory Doran's staging which " with a superb ensemble of black British actors " translates Ancient Rome to modern-day Africa. It's a startlingly close fit.