By Robin Lindsay, Emma Cott and Erik Piepenburg
In Performance: Frances Barber: Frances Barber performs a scene as the title character in the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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The Donmar Warehouse’s all-female production of “Julius Caesar,” directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is set in a high-security women’s prison. In this scene, Caesar, played by the actress Frances Barber, addresses the senate right before he is assasinated by conspirators (or in the case of this version, fellow prisoners), including his close friend Brutus.
In one of the play’s most famous scenes, Caesar says:
“I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”
“Julius Caesar” continues through Nov. 9 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
Maximum Shakespeare: In Performance: Frances Barber
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