Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., Orcas Center
— from Margie Doyle for Orcas Center —
Orcas Center brings Shakespeare’s tale of tyranny and assassination streamed live to the Center Stage on Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London.
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.
Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
“Noisy, visceral, ferociously paced and lethally pertinent, this really is a Shakespeare for the 21st century.” Sunday Times
Viewers note: several scenes of a violent and bloody nature, and gunshots.
Tickets for NT Live’s Julius Caesar $20, $15 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 12-3 p.m. $5 subsidized tickets available at the Box Office. For more information about Orcas Center’s 2017-2018 season visit www.orcascenter.org.
