re: #398 The Vicious Babushka

Not necessarily. It’s up to the director to choose whether to perform the play wearing togas, in contemporary setting, or arbitrarily choose some other random historical period.

Orson Welles staged a production of “Julius Caesar” in the 1930’s featuring fascist uniforms.

I once saw a production of “Hamlet” set in post-Revolutionary France. That period would also work well for “Julius Caesar”.

When I was in college, my friends did a production of McBeth in a post-apocalyptic future. They had half of a car on stage.