Julius Caesar (Garrick Ensemble production)

The Garrick Ensemble, a company of aspiring actors in their 20s and 30s from Greater Manchester and Cheshire who perform one production each year as part of the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse Main House Season, present their version of Shakespeare’s greatest thriller about political chaos, power struggles and friendship betrayals.

Julius Caesar has become a tyrant.

Cassius sees the threat. Brutus is torn by loyalty. Together, they conspire to kill Caesar.

When Cassius and Brutus murder Caesar in full public view on the Ides of March, they think they have heralded a new political age. Instead, chaos erupts, a civil war begins and these traitorous actions threaten the very stability of Rome.

In this striking reimagining of Shakespeare’s famed political thriller, director Joseph Meighan and The Garrick Ensemble bring the story of Julius Caesar’s assassination, and its aftermath, into a world that bears an uncanny resemblance to our own.

A Caesar for our time.

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

The Garrick Ensemble aims to make theatre that is fresh, innovative and exciting. See the very best of local, up and coming talent before they move forward in the next stages of their careers in the Arts.