The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, which began over 30 years ago, helps make the complex plots of Shakespeare’s plays accessible to a wide audience around the Middle Tennessee area.  They came to MTSU’s Tucker Theater to perform Julius Caesar, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and influential plays about the overthrow of a powerful ruler.  Through all the blood and tears that bathe the stage in tragedy, the company presented a complex plot that comments on today’s political climate. The play offers a different approach for college-age students to analyze today’s world through a classic presentation by one of the world’s most famous playwrights. However, the production is not effortless. It takes a team performers, both in front and behind the curtain, to make the over 400 year-old play come together into a captivating performance full of laughter, action, and tragedy.