Julius Caesar

Stepping off the WAAPA campus for this visually striking and auditorily stunning production, Third Year Acting students present Julius Caesar, a show designed, built and crewed by Production and Design students.

Set and costume designer Emily Chong gives us a modern era production, with a clean and studiously simple set, that harks to the Roman era, and costumes that are a lovely blend of American politics with Romanesque flavour. She works well with Lighting Designer Georgia Beswick, who uses colour to great effect. 

The show is accompanied by a percussionist soundtrack from composers and performers Joey Eng and Steve Hartley. A wonderful example of the power of percussion, this was an awesome accompaniment that ranged from subtle underscore to big impact and worked extremely well.

Raj Labade takes Shakespeare’s smallest title role and has a huge impact as Julius Caesar, a man with whose loss we feel greatly. Excellent work from George Vickers-Willis, a Brutus with clear depth, in whom we could see internal conflict. Angelica Lockyer was a very strong Cassius, who commanded audience attention and won it, while Ana Ika’s Mark Antony spoke beautifully and from the heart, with conviction and truth.