Prague Shakespeare Company in partnership with Play On Shakespeare presents
JULIUS CAESAR
by William Shakespeare
in a modern verse translation by Shishir Kurup
Directed by Guy Roberts
Performed in English
85 Minutes
Divadlo Na Pradle
Prague, Czech Republic
22 & 24 April and 23-24 October, 2026
ON TOUR:
Venice, Italy: 29 July, 2026
Vienna, Austria: 6 November, 2026
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 9 November, 2026
Bremen, Germany: 12 November, 2026
Julius Caesar, a force unlike any the city has seen, returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Popular with the common people, outspoken, and irreverent, he seems obsessed with his own authority and achieving absolute power. A small band of the educated elite, devoted to the country’s democratic traditions, decide to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets. Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary. “The Ides of March” comes to Prague in Shakespeare’s great political classic of a nation in turmoil vibrates with modern resonance in this vivid new production by PSC Artistic Director Guy Roberts in a modern English verse translation by Shishir Kurt with additional support from the Hitz Foundation and Play On Shakespeare. Starring Elissa Levitt, Josh Morrison, Jessica Boone, Stephan Wolfert, Dawn Stern, Jeff Smith, Stanislav Callas, Ash Visker, Genevieve Gionet, and Guy Roberts among other PSC favorites. Designed by Eva Bellefeuille, Jon Savage, Stanislav Callas, Eric Sammons and Přemysl Janda. Stage Managed by Stephanie Shattuck.
Originally commissioned as a part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play on! 36 playwrights translate Shakespeare program, now Play On Shakespeare. www.playonshakespeare.org