The Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) is entering into a unique arrangement with the upcoming theatrical release, Me and Orson Welles, directed by Oscar®-nominated Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Before Sunset).
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Joseph Cotten, although cast by Welles in a minor role in "Julius Caesar", became a star of the big screen, despite his comment that: "I didn't care about the movies, really.
Leading lady Muriel Brassler (Portia), though an accomplished stage actresses, was described by Houseman as 'decorative, adequate and hardly memorable'.
Orson Welles was very much the leader of the Mercury Theatre Company, despite his relative youth.
Eddie Marsan appears as what Marc Samuelson calls "the solid centre of what's going on in the madness.
Zoe Kazan was delighted to be cast by Richard Linklater.
Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles whom Richard tries to woo.
Starring as the prickly and pessimistic English actor George Coulouris is Ben Chaplin.
The largely fictionalized template for Richard Samuels in ME AND ORSON WELLES, Anderson remained with Orson as a member of the Mercury Theatre On The Air and became one of the leading voice artists on radio, as well as making regular appearances on stage, in films and on television.
Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it's being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.
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In 1938, just one year after forming The Mercury Theater, Orson Welles took to the air with a series of radio broadcasts on the Columbia Broadcasting System called The Mercury Theater on the Air.
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