I don't think we've talked about that specifically before! Did def. talk about some other staging choices in Julius Caesar (the audience cheering for Caesar, guns in the assassination scene) but not I think the specific question of Genderswapped Cassius. Is Cassius the evil inverse of Kent... Advisor who leads you astray rather than advisor who tries to convince you not to do the stupid thing you're doing?

Side note: does National Theater do subtitles? Someone asked a question about this below and I don't know the answer.