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How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

3.1.112-4

 

The honourable Brutus, Cassius and their fellow senators, assassinate their Emperor Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world. In the public square, Mark Antony turns popular opinion against them, and civil war ensues. Ambition, honour, prophecy and civic responsibility versus personal loyalty are all themes in this great tragedy.

Sir Francis Bacon comments:

"Caesar did extremely affect the name of King; and some were set on as he passed by, in popular acclamation to salute him king. Whereupon, finding the cry weak and poor, he put it off thus in a kind of jest, as if they had mistaken his surname: "Non Rex sum, sed Caesar"; a speech, that if it be searched, the life and fullness of it can scarce be expressed."

 

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Creative Team

Master of Play: Mark Rylance
Master of Clothing and Properties: Jenny Tiramani
Master of Music: Claire van Kampen
Master of Fights: Terry King

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Cast

Danny Sapani - Marcus Brutus
Toby Cokerell - Portia/Octavius Caesar/Servant to Antony
James Gillan - Lucius
Richard Bremmer - Cassius
Liam Hourican - Trebonius/Claudio/Dardanius/A Cobbler/Servant to Caesar
Ben Walden - Decius Brutus/Murellus/Titinius
Terence Maynard - Metellus Cymber/Varrus/Volumnius/Flavius
Timothy Davies - Cinna/Lepidus
Roger Gartland - Caius Ligarius/Cicero/Cinna the Poet
Michael Rudko - Casca/Messala
Mark Lewis Jones - Mark Antony
Benedict Wong - Lucillius/Calpurnia/Popillius Lena/Servant to Octavius Caesar
James Gillan - Young Cato/Publius
Paul Shelley - Julius Caesar/Strato/The Ghost of Caesar
Jimmy Gardner - Clitus/A Soothsayer/A poet
Quill Roberts - Artemidorus/Pindarus/A Carpenter

 

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Discover the Play

• Discover the actors' experiences making the production in Adopt An Actor:

- Danny Sapani as Brutus
- Mike Rudko as Caska
- Ben Walden as Decius Brutus
- Mark Lewis Jones as Mark Antony
- Toby Cockerell as Portia

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Julius Caesar was performed in 1999, as part of the Roman Season.