Details

When Caesar returns to Rome from the wars a virtual dictator, Brutus and his republican friends resolve that his ambition must be curbed - which in Rome can mean only one thing: the great general must be assassinated. But once the deed is done, the idealistic conspirators must reckon with the forces of a new power bloc, led by Mark Antony and Caesar's nephew Octavius. When their armies close at Philippi, will Caesar's ghost be avenged? Opposing dictatorship and republicanism, private virtue and mob violence, Shakespeare's tense drama of high politics reveals the emotional currents that flow between men in power.

Cast/Performers

Jamal Ajala (Lucius), Mercedes Assad (Marullus / Artemidorus), Annabel Baldwin (Soothsayer), Nigel Barrett (Julius Caesar), Matthew Bulgo (Casca), Ella Dacres (Octavius Caesar), Joshua Dunn (Cinna the Poet / Popilius / Carpenter), Katie Erich (Caius Ligarius / Cobbler), Niamh Finlay (Pindarus), Kelly Gough (Cassius), Gina Isaac (Decius Brutus), Robert Jackson (Flavius / Cinna the Conspirator), Tom Kanji (Metellus Cimber / Lepidus), Nadi Kemp-Sayfi (Portia), Jimena Larraguivel (Calpurnia), Pedro Leandro (Trebonius), Matt Ray Brown (Cicero), William Robinson (Mark Antony), Thalissa Teixeira (Brutus)

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Atri Banerjee, Jennifer Jackson (movement), Rachel Bown-Williams (fight), Ruth Cooper-Brown (fight), Lucy Waterhouse (associate director), Chloe Christian (assistant)
Design: Rosanna Vize
Costume(s): Rosanna Vize, Tomas Palmer
Lighting: Lee Curran
Music: Jasmin Kent Rodgman
Sound: Claire Windsor
Musical Director: Lindsey Miller
Other: Alison Bomber (voice and text)