Julius Caesar / the Donmar Warehouse presents ; a Donmar Warehouse/Illuminations production ; [written by] Shakespeare ; [stage] director, Phyllida Lloyd ; producer, Donmar Warehouse, Kate Parkenham ; producer, Illuminations, John Wyver.
Publisher:
Opus Arte,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Harriet Walter, Jade Anouka, Sheila Atim, Jackie Clune, Shiloh Coke, Karen Dunbar, Clare Dunne, Leah Harvey, Zainab Hasan, Jennifer Joseph, Martina Laird, Carolina Valdés. Recorded live December 10 and 17, 2016, at the Donmar at King's Cross. Originally broadcast on television in 2019 as an episode of the TV mini-series: The Donmar Warehouse's all-female Shakespeare trilogy. Accompanying booklet comprises essays by Phyllida Lloyd, Robert Harris, and Deborah Coles. Bonus shorts: An all female trilogy; Power and politics; Performing gender; Brutus & Caesar; Staging violence; Insights on "He doth bestride the narrow world," "Friends, Romans, countrymen"; A director's process, with Phyllida Lloyd; Trailer; Introduction to the play; The plot.
Summary:
Set in present-day in the world of a women's prison, Brutus wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence. What follows is the descent of the country into factions and the outbreak of civil war.
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