CAST OF CHARACTERS!

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(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

THE TRAGEDY OF!

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JULIUS CAESAR!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

PRESENTED FOR GSA SHOWINGS WEEK 2013

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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!

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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;!

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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.!

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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.!