Julius Caesar (Programme 2016)

Director: Polina Kalinina

Starring: Mountview Productions, London

Duration: 2 hours

Prices: A

Language: english

Admission 45 minutes before the beginning of the performance

Caesar must die: the conspirators are sure of it since his power has become too great. As an audience, we have to decide whether this act of killing is justified, a necessary sacrifice in order to save the Republic, or simply a bestial murder. Shakespeare's most ambivalent moral tragedy is a dangerous game of chess in which the lives of people are at stake. At the end of the day it is not about right or wrong, however, it is about the power in the State. Beneath all of this, some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and famous speech creations shine through the dialogue and monologues. Mark Antony's funeral oration, seared into European theatre history, is a rhetorical masterpiece without equal which one cannot escape. A political, timeless, an ever-topical piece – performed by the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and directed by the highly successful young director Polina Kalinina.

German Premiere in English

Scene sequence also available in German