!CAST OF CHARACTERS!(ORDERED BY APPEARANCE)!

!SOOTHSAYER! KARL MERCER!........................................................................................................JULIUS CAESAR ! JOSEPH BEGLEY!..................................................................................................CAIUS CASSIUS! BRYONY TWYDLE/AMALIE HANSSEN/KARL MERCER/MUDASSAR DAR!.....MARCUS BRUTUS! ALICE CORRIGAN/JAMIE ROSS/ANGHARAD PRICE/!...................................

PATCH HARVEY/CHRISSIE NEALE!MARK ANTONY! SIMON GORDON, CARA BALLINGALL!...............................................................CASCA! BLITHN MCCORMICK!....................................................................................................CICERO! ANGHARAD PRICE!............................................................................................................CINNA THE CONSPIRATOR! MUDASSAR DAR!................................................................................LUCIUS! BLITHN MCCORMICK!....................................................................................................DECIUS BRUTUS! PATCH HARVEY!..................................................................................................TREBONIUS! ALICE CORRIGAN!.......................................................................................................METELLUS CIMBER! HELEN RAYNHAM!.........................................................................................PORTIA! JENNIFER SIMS!...................................................................................................................CAIUS LIGARIUS! CARA BALLINGALL!............................................................................................CALPHURNIA! HELEN RAYNHAM!..................................................................................................SERVANTS! CHRISSIE NEALE/JENNIFER SIMS!................................................................................CINNA THE POET! CHRISSIE NEALE!...............................................................................................OCTAVIUS CAESAR! JAMIE ROSS!.....................................................................................................LEPIDUS! JENNIFER SIMS!.................................................................................................................LUCILLIUS! ALICE CORRIGAN!.........................................................................................................PINDARUS! AMALIE HANSSEN!.......................................................................................................TITINIUS! HELEN RAYNHAM !..........................................................................................................MESSALA! SIMON GORDON!............................................................................................................CAESARS GHOST! JOSEPH BEGLEY!.................................................................................................A MESSENGER! ANGHARAD PRICE!................................................................................................CATO! BRYONY TWYDLE!.................................................................................................................TWO SOLDIERS! KARL MERCER/PATCH HARVEY!..........................................................................CLITUS! AMALIE HANSSEN!.............................................................................................................DARDANIUS! JENNIFER SIMS!...........................................................................................................VOLUMNIUS! HELEN RAYNHAM!....................................................................................................STRATO! JOSEPH BEGLEY.................................................................................................................

PRESENTED FOR GSA SHOWINGS WEEK 2013

!THE TRAGEDY OF!

!JULIUS CAESAR!

!BY !

!WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

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!NOTES ON THE PRODUCTION!!This production of Julius Caesar has been cut down to a running time of approximately 80 minutes. The company worked together at the beginning of the rehearsal process to produce a cut that was as efficient and energised as possible, whilst still making sense and remaining true to the original story. Most large speeches have been reduced, with a focus on removing repeated and elaborate elements, the unfortunate side effect of this being the loss of some really beautiful passages. A great deal of attention was given to preserving the metre of the plays verse sections, a task which required some very imaginative cuts and splices.!

Speak, hands, for me!

!Our production has focussed heavily on original early modern practices and borrows several elements that may have been used in the original Globe productions. The thrust staging, live music, universal lighting and doubling are all historical practices that we have tried to incorporate in to our modern performance.!!Julius Caesar was likely one of the first plays to have been performed at Shakespeares Globe. The diary of Thomas Platter the Younger, reports seeing a play at the Globe in 1599 about Julius Caesar. He recounts seeings it performed by a cast of 15 male actors, indicating that the production was making use of cross gender multi-roling. It is fitting that by contrast, our version of the play should be performed by a cast of 15, with many of the male parts being played by women.!!A final note on the cutting of the text, was the decision to leave in place the following passage;!!!

Cowards die many times before their deaths,!The valiant never taste of death but once.!Of all the wonders that I yet have heard!It seems to me most strange that men should fear,!Seeing that death, a necessary end,!Will come when it will come.!!!

In 1979, whilst still a prisoner on Robin Island, Nelson Mandela inscribed his name next to the above passage, which he had underlined. In light of recent events, as a company we agreed to include it in our cut as a way of honouring the memory of a truly remarkable individual.!!