Director William Sterling said it was a more impressionistic production than the usual television drama.

William Sterling said: There is no beginning, middle or end in the recognised manner.

Rather the treatment will be impressionistic and sstylised with much of the action mimed by the characters to prerecorded speech.

There will be dialogue scenes as well but the play concentrates on centralising the character of Caesar against a vast background canvas that recreates the turbulent of the first century of Rome.

[4] The TV critic from the Sydney Morning Herald thought "nothing could have seemed less promising" than an adaptation of the novel, which did not seem suited to television, but "the results were surprisingly successful" praising the writing and direction.