The Company of ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ directed by Shana Cooper Henry Grossman A few years ago the Public Theatre did a sardonic version of Julius Caesar using directed ridicule to lay bare some parallels between Caesar’s power grab with that of the new Trump administration.
Taking the original title of “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, a new nondescript production by director Shana Cooper currently playing at Theatre for a New Audience TFANA in Brooklyn plays the story straight with a modern feel, but without an allegory. The result is.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. It’s a relief that this athletic and fluent production of Shakespeare’s perpetually relevant assassination parable, directed by Shana Cooper for Theatre for a New.
Helmed by Shana Cooper, making her off-Broadway debut after directing an earlier version of this production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2017, this Julius Caesar ponders, compellingly, how cycles of violence often break the bounds created by their impetus and.
Shana Cooper Director, Indecent In four seasons at OSF: Director, Julius Caesar OSF, Theatre for a New Audience, The Unfortunates OSF, American Conservatory Theatre Love’s Labor’s Lost; assistant director, Macbeth, Equivocation.
Directed by Shana Cooper February 17 – October 29, 2017 Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Too much power in one man’s hands. Julius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night full of alarming sights. In short, Shana Cooper’s Julius Caesar is a powerful statement on what is still so relevant about this play – power, politics, friendships, nobility – and it is a work of art.
Theatre For a New Audience celebrates the official opening of the Shana Cooper-helmed The Tragedy of Julius Caesar March 28. The production, which was first seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Director Shana Cooper reimagines Shakespeare's tragedy for our polarized political age Pieces of the set literally fall apart during Theatre for a New Audience's kinetic. Julius Caesar Oregon Shakespeare Festival by William Shakespeare Directed by Shana Cooper Scenic Design: Sibyl Wickersheimer Lighting Design: James Ingalls Sound Design: Paul james Pendergast Choreography: Erika Chong Shuch Fight Choreography: Jon Toppo. Frederick. Lady Day.
Theatre for a New Audience announces the seventeen-member cast and the creative team for its production of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, directed by Shana Cooper in.
“Julius Caesar” crackles with tension, especially in the first half, and draws the audience in. Huge credit must be given to director Shana Cooper, whose unique interpretation of the work brings a new spin to it, while still remaining true to the text. One brilliant choice Cooper does is with the battle sequences in the second act. It is.
Ted Deasy Metellus Cimber, Brandon J. Dirden Marcus Brutus, and Rocco Sisto Julius Caesar in Theatre for a New Audience's production of THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR, directed by Shana Cooper. Shana Cooper is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where her directing credits include The Nether and HIR by Taylor Mac.
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is by William Shakespeare. Directed by Shana Cooper. Choreography by Erika Chong Shuch. Set Design by Sibyl Wickersheimer. Lighting Design by Christopher Akerlind. Sound Design by Paul James Prendergast. Costume Design by Raquel Barreto. Fight Choreography by U. Jonathan Toppo. Stage Manager is Shane Schnetzler.
In the case of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the recreation of Shana Cooper’s much-praised 2017 staging at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival seems to have lost something crucial—its volume.
As Julius Caesar’s power grows, the fearful Senate demands he give up his forces and civil war erupts. With mesmerizing energy, director Shana Cooper explores what happens when violence is used to govern, and theatricalizes a mythic cycle that combines the political, psychological, and phantasmagorical.
The amazing production of Julius Caesar I saw at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February, directed by Shana Cooper, had a setting so abstract and desaturated it could have been anywhere, or everywhere. Untethered to any specific time period, it explored the dark psychological dynamics of male aggression, vanity, and ambition. The bloody.
Shakespeare’s political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and means lead to unexpected consequences they cannot control. This production of Julius Caesar is part of Shakespeare in American Communities, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Director Shana Cooper staged this production at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2017. Now, in her Off-Broadway debut, Cooper reimagines her earlier incarnation of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy for TFANA. More As Julius Caesar's power grows, the fearful Senate demands he give up his forces and. While Shana Cooper’s production for Theatre for a New Audience here called "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" is vigorous, lusty and lucid, it offers no political point of view. We never understand why the conspirators want to get rid of Caesar nor what they want to replace him with instead.
As with that and so many other contemporary versions, the vivid but imperfect one now holding the stage at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, under the First Folio title, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is in modern dress. Originally staged by Shana Cooper at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February 2017, it comes to New York, under the.
On the final night of our trip, we caught Julius Caesar in the indoor Bowmer Theater. Directed by Shana Cooper, this was a modern-dress production, with an incredible set designed by Sibyl Wickersheimer, a visual representation of decay: what looks to be unfinished staging the sides of the stage floor exposed, the “stairs” made up.
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The elements simply don’t come together to create the devastating political drama that is Julius Caesar on the page. It may be a good production for absorbing Shakespeare’s rich dialog, but certainly not the pageantry and visual meaning of this powerful play. Julius Caesar. Through April 28 at Theatre For a New Audience’s Polonsky.
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You have to hand it to Shana Cooper for mounting The Tragedy of Julius Caesar at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. The last major New York production of the classic play was at the Public's Delacorte Theater in Central Park in 2017. The actor in the role of Julius Caesar bore a striking resemblance to the.