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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. In association with the Young Vic Theatre Company

Cast/Performers

John Shrapnel (Julius Caesar), Simon Russell Beale (Cassius, Ralph Fiennes (Antony), Fiona Shaw (Portia), Sean Baker, Anthony Mark Barrow, David Cllings, Robert Demeger, Michael Gardiner, Jimmy Gardner, David Glover, Ginny Holder, Jim Hooper, Chris Jarman, John Kane, Joseph Kennedy, Oliver Kieran-Jones, Alex McIntosh, Celia Meiras, James Anthony Pearson, Tim Potter, Struan Rodger, John Rogan, Clifford Rose, Paul Shearer, Rohan Siva, Daniel Weyman, Leo Wringer

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Producer(s): Barbican, Theatre National du Chaillot (Paris), Teatro Espanol (Madrid), Grand Theatre de la Ville (Luxembourg)
Director: Deborah Warner
Design: Tom Pye
Lighting: Jean Kalman
Music: Mel Mercier
Sound: Christopher Shutt