Julius Caesar

Synopsis: Video recording of the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar directed by Stuart Vaughan with Al Pacino as Mark Antony and Martin Sheen as Brutus.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2 Apr 1988
Duration: 129 mins

Director

Stuart Vaughan

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Lee Hoiby

Production Design

Bob Shaw

Costume

Lindsay W. Davis

Cast

Theatre: Public/Newman Theatre, New York, NY
Production type: Stage Recordings
Historical period: Ancient Rome
Plays: Julius Caesar
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); New York Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare Marathon (1987-1997)

Notes: UCLA Film and Television Archive holds a reviewers’ reel (20 mins).
History: The production ran 22 March-3 April 1988
Reviews: Oberlander, Marjorie J. Shakespeare Bulletin 6, no. 4 (1988). Rich, Frank. New York Times 23 March 1988, p. 20. Rich writes of Pacino’s verse speaking - ‘Mr. Pacino’s handling of the language also leaves much to be desired - not so much because he talks in New Yorkese, but because the New Yorkese seems to have been subjected to quick-fix elocution training. The staccato pauses following Mr. Pacino’s strenuous enunciation of final consonants obliterate the meaning of his lines’.

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