Question 1: In a fallen, dangerous, post-apocalyptic world, what would you do to preserve the state from tyranny?
Question 2: In a difficult independent theatre landscape, what do you do to get a production of a Shakespeare classic mounted, and available to the broadest audience you can?
Answers: If you’re setting William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in that theoretical post-apocalyptic world…well, if you’re reading this blog and listening to this podcast, you probably have a good idea of what happens…
…and why not bring together two Shakespeare-focused companies, What Dreams May Co and Queens Shakespeare Inc., to answer the second posited query, joining forces to bring this new and unique take on the classic to audiences.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears and listen in as director Chris Rivera, along with actors Jonathan Emerson (Mark Antony), Christina Sheehan (Caius Cassius), Serena E. Miller (Julius Caesar), and V. Orion Delwaterman (Marcus Brutus) discuss sangria, imagining New York City as the only place in the world, talking with your young fans after the show, keeping up your stamina for a longer indy theatre run, and where this play meets Highlander (hint: there can be only one).
“When we set these pieces in a modern world, sometimes there’s a lot of creative work we have to do to make it fit. Not in this case. If you look at the political landscape that we’re in, these sort of things happen all the time…”
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What Dreams May Co
in association with Queens Shakespeare presents
Julius Caesar
written by William Shakespeare
directed by Chris Rivera
through August 2nd, 2015
Fridays and Saturdays at 7PM
Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM)
John DeSotelle Studio
300 W. 43rd Street
Manhattan
tickets: $18, available via BrownPaperTickets
photos by Joseph Sebring