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Gallery Rod Carley's Julius Caesar (1996)
"In dramatizing the complex issues of power politics, Julius Caesar offers no easy solutions to problems that are no less baffling to our own age. It is disconcerting when a play--or history itself--appeals to our earnest desire to judge actions in terms of simple, personal standards of right and wrong, and then betrays and mocks our deepest convictions by suggesting that power is better than virtue, that efficiency may be preferable to goodness, or that conscience may be dangerously inadequate in determining political action. To that end the play unfolds in America in 1963-64 during events surrounding the final year of John F. Kennedy. The production puts forth the following premise: what if on November 22, 1963, the Dallas assassination attempt fails and the president is seriously wounded? The play picks up four months later in washington, D.C.--it is the Ides of March and the conspiracy continues. Drawing on the speculation, conspiracy theories, and myths surrounding this chapter in American history, Julius Caesar becomes a powerful and compromising examination of political, ethical, and psychological ironies of a decidedly modern and painfully human kind." (from Program)
Link to
Online Anthology: The Othello Project
Link to Interview
with Rod Carley
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Julius Caesar: Promotional Parade Caesar (Eric McKenzie) |
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| Assassination of Caesar (Eric McKenzie) |
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| Julius Caesar speaks to the crowd. |
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| The deaths of Brutus and Cassius |
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| Mark Antony (Braden Cambell), Julius Caesar (Eric
McKenzie), and Trebonius (Laura Oliver) |
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| Julius Caesar: Promtional Parade |
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| Assassination of Caesar (Eric McKenzie) |
Link to
Online Anthology: The Othello Project
Link to Interview
with Rod Carley
