If you blinked last weekend, you missed it - though six hours, to be fair, is quite a long blink. And where similar offerings often remain online for later viewing, in this instance live meant live.
This marathon, modern-dress sequence of “Coriolanus,” “Julius Caesar” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” first performed in the Netherlands in 2007 and widely toured since, was revived for one mid-pandemic performance. That was the immediate take-away from the livestream last Sunday of the director Ivo van Hove’s “Roman Tragedies,” an exhilarating distillation of Shakespeare’s three Roman plays performed throughout an afternoon and into the evening as part of the International Theater Amsterdam’s ITALive program.
Six hours have rarely passed so quickly, or been so smart.