Bell Shakespeare Presents JULIUS CAESAR, 9/6-9/17

Bell Shakespeare will present JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare and directed by Peter Evans featuring Alex Menglet and Kate Mulvany.

JULIA GILLARD: "Kevin Rudd is an honourable person."
TANYA PLIBERSEK: "I've always found him to be an honourable man."
WAYNE SWAN: "No what I said is that Kevin Rudd is an honourable man."
TONY ABBOTT : "I think a lot of people who have watched this ugly assassination today will be very disillusioned with the Labor Party."

To see the future one must only look to the past. This new production of Julius Caesar brings us behind the scenes as yet another leader is forced from office.

Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare's new Associate Artistic Director, takes this momentous piece of Roman history and transports it to the corridors of backroom politics.

Like many before him and after him, Julius Caesar (Alex Menglet) had the support of the people but the loathing of The Players.

While the ruler goes in search of ways to further expand his power, the conniving Cassius (Kate Mulvany) persuades poor patriotic Brutus to join a conspiracy bent on bringing the leader down.

But not even a front-man of Brutus' unimpeachable integrity could avert the total and utter disaster their daggers set in motion.

And after all the back-stabbing and power-grabbing, with the politicians claiming that their actions are ‘for the good of the country', what we learn in the end is that violence will only beget violence.

Director, Peter Evans says: "I find this story constantly relevant. We witness the original pre-emptive strike and the irony of the ‘honourable assassination' with all the carnage that a power vacuum creates.

"Julius Caesar is a play that is never out of date, in fact feels today relentlessly modern."

JULIUS CESAR will run from 6 - 17 September at
The Arts Centre
Fairfax Studio

For tickets, call 1300 182 183  or visit online at THEARTSCENTRE.COM.AU
OR 1300 723 038 / TICKETMASTER.COM.AU
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