Caesar (Mercury Theatre)
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Caesar is a 1937 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by Orson Welles, an innovative, modern-dress bare-stage production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germ
Orson Welles as Marcus Brutus, as seen on the cover of Stage magazine from June 1938
"I am constant as the Northern Star": Caesar (Joseph Holland, standing at center) addresses Brutus (Orson Welles, left) and the conspirators shortly before his assassination in Caesar (1937)
Arthur Anderson (Lucius) and Orson Welles (Brutus) in the tent scene in Caesar (1937)
Evelyn Allen (Calpurnia) and Joseph Holland (Julius Caesar) in Caesar (1937)
Me and Orson Welles
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Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set
Caesar (Mercury Theatre)
…to have an extra at his side for two weeks at $1 a show. The incident is fictionalized in Robert Kaplow's novel Me and Orson Welles (2003) and its 2008 film adaptation. Actor Joseph Holland, who played the title role in Caesar, was accidentally stabbed by Welles during the performance on April 6, 1938. Welles performed…
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The Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man, stood in for the Mercury Theatre, which was demolished in 1942
Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar 1802