Creation in Boston, USA (2008) · Available on tour 2026-2027
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare is one of Arthur Nauzyciel's major creations.
Created in 2008 in Boston with American actors it has already known several tours in France and abroad. Arthur Nauzyciel has created then artistic companionships with actors and collaborators that he has regularly worked with since. It consecrated an American experience, a rare thing for a French director, with two plays by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Black Battles with Dog (2001) and Roberto Zucco (2004), and in Boston for the A.R.T. Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh (2007).
A play giving a central role to politics, seldom performed in France, Julius Caesar opens up the relection on what is the common good, and it still finds today strong, vivid, contemporary resonances. After 2 plays by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Black Battles With Dogs at the 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta (2001), reprised in Chicago (2004), and Roberto Zucco at the Emory Theater in Atlanta (2004), Arthur Nauzyciel staged Mike Leigh’s Abigail's Party at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston (2007). Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, his fourth show in the United States, was created at the A.R.T. in February 2008.
Julius Caesar inaugurated in 2017 Arthur Nauzyciel's first season at the head of the Théâtre National de Bretagne, a way for him to present his work to the audience and to transmit this art theatre open on the world that questions the issues at stake of today’s society in all its diversity.
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By
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Direction
ARTHUR NAUZYCIEL
Set
RICCARDO HERNANDEZ
Lights
SCOTT ZIELINSKI
Costumes
JAMES SCHUETTE
Sound
DAVID REMEDIOS
Choreographer
DAMIEN JALET
Assistant
BERTILLE KAPELA
General manager
SYLVAIN SAYSANA
Lighting technician
CHRISTOPHE DELARUE
Sound technician
FLORENT DELMAS
Props / Wardrobe
MYRIAM RAULT
Stage technician
ANTOINE GIRAUD ROGER
With
SARA KATHRYN BAKKER
LUCA CARBONI
JARED CRAIG
ROY FAUDREE
ISMA’IL IBN CONNER
ISAAC JOSEPHTHAL
DYLAN KUSSMAN
MARK MONTGOMERY
RUDY MUNGARAY
DANIEL PETTROW
TIMOTHY SEKK
NEIL PATRICK STEWART
JAMES WATERSTON
and the jazz trio
DMITRY ISHENKO (double bass)
LEANDRO PELLIGRINO (guitar)
MARIANNE SOLIVAN (vocals)
Production: Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre Dramatique National (Rennes). Coproduction: CDN Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire, in partnership with American Repertory Theatre (principal mécène: Philip and Hilary Burling); Festival d’Automne à Paris; Maison des Arts de Créteil; TGP–CDN de Saint-Denis. With the support of Fonds Étant Donnés The French-American Fund for Performing Arts, a Program of FACE, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.