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| CAST: |
| Portia |
Janet
Amsbury |
| Calphurnia |
Susan
Colverd |
| Lady/Plebeian |
Jane
Leonard |
| Plebeian |
Helen
Shields |
| Brutus |
Roger
Allam |
| Plebeian |
Ian
Bailey |
| Cassius |
Sean
Baker |
| Flavius/Ligarius/Plebeian/Volumnius |
Ian
Barrit |
| Cinna The
Conspirator/Lucilius |
Gordon
Case |
First Citizen/Octavius'
Servant/Plebeian/Claudius/
Second Soldier/Clitus |
Carlton
Chance |
| Titinius/Decius/Plebeian |
William
Chubb |
| Lepidus/Publius |
Dennis
Clinton |
| Dardanius/First
Soldier |
Patrick
Cremin |
| Octavius/Plebeian |
Gregory
Doran |
| Messala/Marullus/Servant/Plebeian |
Mike
Dowling |
| Pindarus/Trebonius |
Steven
Elliott |
| Casca |
Geoffrey
Freshwater |
| Plebeian |
Jeremy
Gilley |
| Strato/Metellus
Cimber |
Derek
Hutchinson |
| Young
Lucius/Young Cato |
Piers
Ibbotson |
| Soothsayer-Poet/Clown |
Griffith
Jones |
| Cicero/Popilius |
Bill
McGuirk |
| Julius
Caesar |
Joseph
O'Conor |
| Mark
Antony |
Linus
Roache |
| Cinna
the Poet/Varro/Plebeian |
Gordon
Warnecke |
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| TECHNICAL
TEAM: |
| Director |
Terry
Hands |
| Set
Designed by |
Farrah |
| Costumes
Designed by |
Alexander
Reid |
| Music
by |
Guy
Woolfenden |
| Sound
by |
Steff
Langley & Michael McCoy |
| Fights
by |
Ian
McKay |
| Company
Voice Work by |
Cicely
Berry & Patsy Rodenburg |
| Music
Director |
Richard
Brown |
| Assistant
Director |
Bill
Buffery |
| Lighting
Assistant |
Garry
Spraggett |
| Assistant
Music Director |
Peter
Washtell |
| Stage
Manager |
Richard
Oriel |
| Deputy
Stage Manager |
Eric
Lumsden |
| Assistant
Stage Manager |
Jayne
Hedley-Boreham |
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| The
Story |
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| Before
the opening of the action of this play, Caesar
has defeated the armies led by the sons of
Pompey the Great and has returned to Rome
in triumph. The
honours that are heaped on Caesar have
aroused the resentment of some of the
citizens of Rome and, urged on by Cassius,
they plot his assassination. Cassius persuades
the respected Brutus, who claims descent
from one of the founders of the Republic,
to join the conspirators. Caesar is murdered
on the Ides of March. Antony and Octavius,
Caesar's nephew, raise an army against
the forces of Brutus and Cassius. In the
battle, Cassius' troops are routed and
he commits suicide. Brutus, too, sensing
defeat, kills himself. |
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| Date
and Sources |
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| The main
source for Julius Caesar was Sir Thomas
North's translation of Plutarch's Lives
of the Noble Grecians and Romans, which
appeared in English in 1579. The
play was probably written in 1599 and
first performed later that year at the
new Globe Theatre. It was, as were all
Shakespeare's plays at the Globe, performed
without an interval. |
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