Curiously there is no mention of these talks in the report and accounts - not quite best corp- orate governance practice.
But in the Washington Opera's updated new production, Nero wears boxer shorts instead of a toga, and his senators clutch briefcases and orate around a board-room table instead of from the world's original rostrum.
I have always loved the asymmetries of British Chekhov stagings, the ways that two or more activities are frequently going on at different tempi, and the way that the people in the stage world never stop to orate to the audience.