Julius Caesar

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1995 production of Julius Caesar. Directed by Peter Hall with Christopher Benjamin as Caesar and Hugh Quarshie as Mark Antony.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 21 Aug 1995
Duration: 145 mins

Director

Peter Hall

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Guy Woolfenden

Production Design

John Gunter

Cast

Notes: A recording was made at the Barbican 1 June 1996.
General: "Rome, as realised by Hall and designer John Gunter, is a place of imposing symbols and covert superstition, where plotters skulk beneath triumphalist architecture. The conspirators, led by Julian Glover’s superbly controlled Cassius, are all in red togas, while Caesar and Antony wear flowing, bloodstainable white." Nick Curtis, Evening Standard (London) 24 May 1995.

Children in the production were played by Edward Byass, Lydia Day, Alisa Duguid, Sophia Hunt, Naomi Shearing and Damian Storey.
History: Press night 5 July 1995
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare Quarterly (1996), pp235-67 espec. 250-52.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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British Universities Film & Video Council