NT Live presents ‘Julius Caesar: Et Tu, Brute?’
Orcas Center brings Shakespeare’s tale of tyranny and assassination streamed live on the center stage screen at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5.
Ben Whishaw (“The Danish Girl,” “Skyfall,” “Hamlet”) and Michelle Fairley (“Fortitude,” “Game of Thrones”) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (“The Lost City of Z,” “The Hatton Garden Job”) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (“The Missing,” “Hangmen,” “The Walking Dead”) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London.
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.
Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
“Noisy, visceral, ferociously paced and lethally pertinent, this really is a Shakespeare for the 21st century.” Sunday Times
Several scenes of a violent and bloody nature and gunshots.
Tickets for NT Live’s “Julius Caeser” are $20, $15 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open from 12-3 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Subsidized tickets available at the box office for $5. For more information about Orcas Center’s 2017-2018 season visit www.orcascenter.org.
Bolshoi Encore: Giselle Turns into a Wili
And unfaithful men dance till they die!
Orcas Center once again brings the story of unrequited love and revenge as told by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet to the Center Stage Screen, with an encore performance of “Giselle” at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 8.
When Giselle learns that her beloved Albrecht is promised to another woman, she dies of a broken heart in his arms. While Albrecht grieves, she returns from the dead as a Wili, a vengeful spirit meant to make unfaithful men dance to death…
Prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova personifies this ultimate ballerina role in the classical repertoire, alongside the sensational Sergei Polunin as Albrecht, in this chilling, yet luminous ballet that continues to captivate audiences for over 150 years at the Bolshoi.
Tickets for The Bolshoi’s Ballet in Cinema’s “Giselle” are $20, $15 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office open from 12-3 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Subsidized tickets available at the box office for $5. For more information about Orcas Center’s 2017-2018 season visit www.orcascenter.org.
