Utterly spectacular - this review could end there.
But it would be remiss of me not to outline exactly all the 'spectacular' elements that go into what is truly one of the best things I have seen on stage in years.
Julius Caesar is a particularly difficult play to reinterpret and modernise. Not only it is one of William Shakespeare's most beloved it also focuses on one of history's most infamous episodes.
Caesar has returned to Rome triumphant after war with Pompey. The people are hungry for stability. They are hungry for a leader.
But could Rome ever stomach a return to a monarch? Caesar's closest ally Mark Antony tests the people by presenting Caesar with a crown three times but on each occasion he waves it away.
Yet history will remember this fateful act as the moment a conspiracy to murder Caesar - citing his ambition as the reason - takes seed.
Although this play bears his name, Caesar - played like a senior sales rep with a paunch and a badly tailored grey suit by the excellent Nigel Barrett - is not the central character.
The thread is orbited with aplomb by conspirators - traitors? - Cassius and Brutus.
Thalissa Teixeira has been grabbing the headlines so far in this run with her jaw-dropping interpretation of Brutus - and the praise is fully deserved.
Often Brutus is played with an anger that does not poison Teixeira's portrayal. Instead the brewing storm - whipped up by Cassius - calms at times as Brutus wrestles with the thought of murder.
When Brutus' wife Portia - exquisitely played by Nadi Kemp-Sayfi - quizzes her husband about what is plaguing his mind the production reaches a high point.
But it is Annabel Baldwin's extraordinary Cassius that will live longest in the memory. Cassius bristles, swoons, manipulates, convinces and - ultimately - kills. The whole of Rome is splattered with Caesar's blood in the end but it is Cassius who plunges the knife deepest.
Baldwin pitches this particularly distasteful - yet very persuasive - Cassius perfectly.
Add to the performances an imaginative and engaging set - the Elysium scenes are superb - and this is a real triumph.
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