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Creative Team
William Shakespeare - Playwright Cherissa Richards - Director Pam Johnson - Set Designer Jessica Oostergo - Costume Designer Jonathon Hawley Purvis - Choreographer/Fight Director Candelario Andrade - Video Designer Gerald King - Lighting Designer Kate De Lorme - Sound Designer Stephen Drover - Production Dramaturg/Adaptor Joanne P.B. Smith - Production Stage Manager Alison Matthews - Head Voice & Text Coach Melanie Yeats - Intimacy Director Vanessa Lefan Yuen - Associate Sound Designer Oriana Camporese - Assistant Costume Designer Ryan Cormack - Assistant Set Designer Sam Jeffery - Assistant Fight Director Hina Nishioka - Assistant Lighting Designer Angelica Schwartz - Directing Apprentice Jennifer Stewart - Assistant Stage Manager Yuting Yue - Apprentice Stage Manager Cast Andrew Wheeler - Julius Caesar Andrew McNee - Brutus Jennifer Lines - Mark Antony Emma Slipp - Cassius Sharon Crandall - Calphurnia/Citizen/Soldier Chelsea Rose - Portia/Citizen/Soldier Scott Bellis - Soothsayer/Citizen/Soldier Lieutenant/Soldier Olivia Hutt - Casca Ben Elliott - Decius Brutus Alexandra Lainfiesta - Trebonius/Citizen/Soldier Matthew MacDonald Bain - Metellus/Citizen/Soldier Naomi Ngebulana - Cinna/Citizen/Soldier Oscar Derkx - Octavius Caesar/Citizen/Soldier Evan Rein - Lucius/Citizen/Soldier Henry Beasley - Cinna the Poet/Citizen/Soldier Marco Walker-Ng - Citizen/Octavius's Lieutenant Sally Zori - Citizen/Solider Jennifer Copping - Understudy for Mark Anthony/Calphurnia/Citizen/Soldier Andrew Cownden - Understudy for Soothsayer/Citizen/Octavius's Matthew Ip Shaw - Understudy for Decius Brutus/Octavius Caesar/Citizen/Soldier |
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Shakespeare’s riveting drama tells the story of the leader Julius Caesar, who is murdered by those he trusts – a murder that his closest ally, Mark Antony, is unable to stop. This timeless story, in a modern-day setting, is about the human drive to get and hold on to power – and how order and good government can turn to chaos when personal ambition is unchecked. Julius Caesar is powerfully connected to our world’s political landscape, with its fractured integrity, and it raises profound questions for us all.
Production Photos by Tim Matheson
Reviews
Stir Arts & Culture: Striking Staging, Gutsy Vision in a Julius Caesar that Speaks Directly to Our Times
"Director Cherissa Richards’s take on Shakespeare’s compelling and complex political drama—only staged once before in the fest’s history—is gutsy and often chilling."
"Director Cherissa Richards’s take on Shakespeare’s compelling and complex political drama—only staged once before in the fest’s history—is gutsy and often chilling."
Colin Thomas: Julius Caesar: Splendid
"Director Cherissa Richards’s production of Julius Caesar for Bard on the Beach is riveting from start to finish. I have never experienced such a successful interpretation of this play."
"Director Cherissa Richards’s production of Julius Caesar for Bard on the Beach is riveting from start to finish. I have never experienced such a successful interpretation of this play."
