The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
Acting
Walter's Brutus shatters with every whispered soliloquy.
Direction
Lloyd's prison framing weaponizes claustrophobia.
Production
Industrial setting strips royalty to bare survival.
Director
Phyllida Lloyd
Harriet Walter
Brutus
Jade Anouka
Mark Antony
Sheila Atim
Lucius
Jackie Clune
Julius Caesar
Karen Dunbar
Casca
Clare Dunne
Portia/Octavius Caesar
Leah Harvey
Soothsayer
Zainab Hasan
Capurnia/Metellus Cimber
Jennifer Joseph
Trebonius
Martina Laird
Cassius
Carolina Valdés
Dog/Cinna
Rhiannon Harper-Rafferty
Guard
Liv Spencer
Guard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Lloyd's trilogy with all-female Henry IV and The Tempest, performed at London's Donmar Warehouse then filmed for cinema release.
The prison setting emerged from Lloyd's work with Clean Break theatre company, which develops work with women affected by the criminal justice system—making the carceral frame not aesthetic choice but lived politics.
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