Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom for another of her weekly reviews of the Baltimore's regional stage. Today, she sizes up the new production of the musical Caesar / Americana at Baltimore's Fells Point Corner Theatre.
Produced by the creative team of Motte & Bailey — the independent Baltimore theater company — and adapter/director Hannah Fogler, Caesar / Americana is Fogler's musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic play, Julius Caesar. Following in the vein of her previous musical adaptation, Hamlet / Black Parade, Fogler’s latest work weaves Shakespeare’s text and the music of American songwriters Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Poor Man’s Poison, Bob Dylan, and others to create a unique mash-up of modern and classical drama, set in an alternate post-World War I Appalachia.
Caesar / Americana 's 16-member cast, directed by Ms. Fogler, includes Brad Norris, Emily Classen, Carlos Del Valle, Lance Bankerd, Siobhan Beckett, Amy Bell, Brad Bukowsky, Omololu Collins, Hannah Fogler, J Purnell Hargrove, Bobby Henneberg, Sharon Maguire, Jess Miller, Jessica Preactor, Julia Williams, and Vexara, with Live Band support by Greg Bell and Cry Havoc.
Motte & Bailey’s production of Caesar / Americana runs through March 25 at Fells Point Corner Theatre. For showtimes and ticket info, click here.
