Julius Caesar

Set during the waning days of the Roman Republic on the dawn of the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar chronicles the events surrounding and following the assassination of Caesar by a group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Julius Caesar focuses not on the life of Caesar, but on the inner machinations of the conspiracy that took his life, the moral crisis faced by Brutus in the lead up to his
assassination and the fallout from this act. It examines the power, ambition, image vs reality, revolution and control through the lens of political violence, the power of language and the notions of honour vs morality. As Rome is plunged into a violent civil war in the wake of Caesar’s death, Brutus and Cassius are forced to reckon with the realisation that their revolution may have always been doomed to fail, and that their fate was always sealed.
Taking the action out of Ancient Rome and transposing it to the waning days of the Cold War in Europe, this new interpretation will examine the various ways democracies have fallen by drawing parallels between the death of the Roman Republic and the political upheaval of the late Cold War era. Holding a mirror to both out worlds and the ancient worlds, Julius Caesar will ask “What would you do to protect freedom?” “Is there a right way to stage a revolution?” and “Can it ever be noble to take a life?”