Julius Caesar
Brennan Pickman-Thoon (l) and Charles Shaw Robinson (r)
The California Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar
previewed May 28--30, and ran from May 31 through June 22, 2003.
Brennan played Lucius, loyal servant and attendant to Brutus.
Click here for a real audio clip from the show, including Karl Hanover and Andy Murray.
Andy Murray as Marc Antony, Domenique Lozano as Calpurnia, L. Peter Callendar as Julius Caesar,
James Carpenter as Caius Cassius, and Gerald Hiken as Soothsayer.
James Carpenter as Casius (l), L. Peter Callendar as Julius Caesar (c), and Andy Murray as Marc Antony (r)
On March 15, 44 B.C., a day known as the Ides of March, Caesar entered the Senate House. An assassination plot had been hatched by a group of 60 senators, including Caius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus. Caesar did not return from the Senate that day . . . and Rome fell into 13 years of civil war.
Source photos courtesy of Jay Yamada.
About the Director
California Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone poses the questions: How do we make classic theater reflect a modern world with modern sensibilities about sexuality, gender, and ethnicity? Do classics need to be modernized to be relevant?
Jonathan Moscone completed his third season as Artistic Director at the California Shakespeare Festival and directed both A Midsummer Night's Dream and the critically acclaimed production of Chekhov's The Seagull this year, which made all the Bay Area newspapers' lists for the Best of 2002. During his first season at Cal Shakes, he directed Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. In the 2001 season, he directed Twelfth Night, which was named among the "Ten Best of 2001" in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, and Contra Costa Times, and received ten Dean Goodman's Choice Awards, including Best Director and Best Production.
A native of San Francisco, Moscone earned his MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama before serving for seven years as the Associate Director of the Dallas Theater Center. His work at DTC includes the world premiere of Karen Hartman's Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl, a world premiere adaptation (which he cowrote) of A Christmas Carol, Wilde's An Ideal Husband, Shaw's Arms and the Man, and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, for which he was awarded the Dallas Critics Forum and Leon Rabin Awards for Best Direction of a Play. Moscone's regional directing credits include the musical Heart Land for the Goodspeed Opera House; La Boheme for Triangle Opera; The Loman Family Picnic, The Glass Menagerie and Das Barbecue for Portland Stage Company; and the world premiere of The Pharmacist's Daughter for the Magic Theater in San Francisco. He is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award for Directing as well as a Drama League Directors Project Fellowship. Upcoming projects include an adaptation of Hamlet by Naomi Iizuka, with Sean San Jose.
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