Julius Caesar
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ADAPTED BY MICHAEL DAILEY & NIC DIMOND
DIRECTED BY NIC DIMOND
Jul 16, 2003–Jul 20, 2003
Theater on the Lake
2400 N. Lakeshore Drive
Strawdog is thrilled to have been invited to participate in Theater on the Lake’s summer collection of the year’s best off-Loop productions. Our staging of Julius Caesar earned rave reviews from critics, and Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips said it’s “the first good Julius Caesar I’ve seen.”
Dateline: Rome. City at the center of the world. It is the aftermath of a great civil war that had threatened to tear the Empire apart and Julius Caesar has returned to Rome prepared to accept the mantle of King from a willing senate. Among Caesar’s highest ranking men are Cassius and Brutus, long-time friends whose own ideals and ambitions drive them to a conspiracy to make Rome a Republic at the cost of Caesar’s life.
Strawdog co-artistic director Mike Dailey and emeritus member Nic Dimond (director of The Green Bird, Return to the Howard Bowl and Measure for Measure) have taken a hatchet and a scalpel to Shakespeare’s story of friendship and political violence and they’ve carved it up as a dish fit for the Dogs.
Cast
Michael Dailey*
as Cassius
Anita Deely
as Portia
John Ferrick*
as Marc Antony
Carmine Grisolia*
as Octavius
Chris Hainsworth
as Brutus
Kyle Hamman*
as Lucius
Tom Hickey
as Casca
Gregor Mortis
as Soothsayer
Loretta Rezos
as Calpurnia
John Henry Roberts*
as Julius Caesar
James Anthony Zoccoli
as Decius Brutus the Flatterer
Creative Team
William Shakespeare
Author
Nic Dimond
Director
David Meihaus
Set Design
Aly Renee Amidei*
Costume Design
Gregor Mortis
Sound Design
* Strawdog Theatre ensemble member