“Beware the Ides of March!” Listen to an exclusive clip from Caesar: A Surround Sound Experiment
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Directed and Adapted for Audio by Joseph Discher
Soundscape by Leigh Roberts
Engineering & Additional Design by Rider Q. Stanton
Associate Sound Designer - Kristina Tevdorazde
Production Manager - Denise Cardarelli
Produced by Sean Hudock
Producing Resident - Hope Cassandra
Press - DKC/O&M
THE CAST
Jacqueline Antaramian | Soothsayer/Calphurnia
Joel de la Fuente | Caius Cassius
Joseph Discher | Cicero/Popilius Lena/Volumnius
Mark H. Dold | Casca/Pindarus
Sean Hudock | Mark Antony
Maurice Jones | Cinna/Octavius Caesar
January Lavoy | Portia
Anthony Michael Martinez | Flavius/Trebonius/Lucius
Ryan McCarthy | Marullus/Metellus Cimber/Messala
Shane Taylor | Artemidorus
Patrick Toon | Cobbler/Decius Brutus/Cinna the Poet
Scott Wentworth | Julius Caesar
Derek Wilson | Marcus Brutus
I have been passionate about theatre since high school. However, truth be told, i did not care for Shakespeare in high school. It was difficult to understand. I faked my way through high school English class and a college Shakespeare course with cliff notes.
It was not until I worked on a professional stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and heard the words spoken aloud that I experienced an awakening to the beauty, magic, and power of Shakespeare’s work. Since then, I have embraced the belief that the transformative and transportive qualities of any Shakespeare production are rooted in his text and the sounds contained in his verse, My stage productions have always relied upon the text as the foundation and inspiration for everything that appears or takes place on stage when I direct. i always thought my ears were finely tuned to the workings of the text and all it could accomplish when spoken with skill and passion. Working Caesar: A Surround Sound Experiment changed that.
This production has sparked an incredible new awakening in me, perhaps even more profund. Listening to the sounds of Shakespeare’s text combined with an immersive soundscape inspired by that text is visceral and thrilling. These words and sounds traveing diretly into one’s ear and thus the mind’s eye with no gap between speaker and listener, brings Shakespeare to a level that can only be experienced, not described.
Put on your headphones, allow yourself to be immersed, and enjoy!