Shakespeare's Globe announces cast for JULIUS CAESAR

Photo credit: Kate Bones

Shakespeare’s Globe have announced the cast for Julius Caesar, which plays at The Globe Theatre and venues across the UK from 29 April - 10 September.

Julius Caesar opens at Morden Hall Park in South London on 29 April before performances at The Globe Theatre from 3 May. Tour venues include Hay Festival (Hay-on-Wye), The Reader at Calderstones (Liverpool), Taunton Brewhouse (Taunton), The Outsiders Project & BEAF (Boscombe), Penlee Park Open Air Theatre (Penzance Horsley Place (Guildford, York Theatre Royal (York), Alnwick Playhouse (Alnwick), Brighton Open Air Theatre (Brighton) and Magdalen College School Grounds (Oxford). Further dates will be announced shortly.

Shakespeare’s epic tragedy takes on startlingly new relevance and asks the question: in a world where the mark of one’s success is how great your country is, how far are our leaders willing to go to reign supreme?

Director Diane Page said: “I’m so excited to bring my production of Julius Caesar straight from the Globe Theatre in London to tour across the UK. These past few years have revealed more than ever how betrayal, division, and cunning rhetoric are not just traits belonging to Ancient Rome. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar will be on the road this summer and I look forward to visiting these fantastic venues.” 

The cast includes Charlotte Bate (I Think We Are Alone, Frantic Assembly) as Cassius, Omar Bynon (2036: Pawn, Bush Theatre) as Decius/Soothsayer, Anna Crichlow (The Worst Witch, Royal & Derngate) as Brutus, Amie Francis (Paradise, National Theatre) as Calpurnia, Cash Holland (Homos or Everyone in America, Finborough Theatre) as Portia/Murellus, Jack Myers (South Downs, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Caska/Octavius, Samuel Oatley (Richard III, York Theatre Royal/Nottingham Playhouse) as Mark Antony, and Dickon Tyrrell (Macbeth, Globe 2020) as Julius Caesar.

The production has choreography by Asha Jennings-Grant, composition by Simon Slater, design by Khadija Raza and movement by Glynn MacDonald.

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