Julius Caesar 
by William ShakespearePerformances
| The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre | Stratford, Connecticut | July 12 to August 31, 1955 |
Cast (In Order of Appearance)
Julius Caesar ....................... Hurd Hatfield Octavius Caesar .................... Roddy McDowall Marcus Antonius ............... Christopher Plummer Cicero ............................... Robert Hacha Publius ............................. Jerry Stiller Popilius Lena ..................... Gerald Metcalfe Marcus Brutus ...................... Raymond Massey Cassius .............................. Jack Palance Casca ................................ Fritz Weaver Trebonius ............................. Bern Lenrow Ligarius ......................... Robert Geiringer Decius Brutus ...................... Roger Hamilton Metellus Cimber ....................... Peter Donat Cinna ................................. Jack Cannon Flavius ............................... Alan Shayne Marullus ........................... Walter Mathews A Cobbler ............................ Rex Everhart A Carpenter ......................... Jerry Stiller Lucius, servant to Brutus ............. Donald Mork Artemidorus, a teacher of rhetoric ... Robert Hacha A Soothsayer .......................... Earle Hyman A Messenger from Antony ................ Ben Janney Cinna, a poet ......................... Alan Shayne Lucilius .............................. Peter Donat Titinius .............................. James Olson Messala ............................... Bern Lenrow Young Cato ......................... Roger Hamilton Volumnius ............................. Jack Cannon Clitus ............................ Gerald Metcalfe Strato ................................ Alan Shayne Dardanius .............................. Ben Janney Pindarus, servant to Cassius .......... Earle Hyman Calpurnia, wife to Caesar ............ Polly Rowles Portia, wife to Brutus ................. Leora Dana Servant to Caesar .................. Walter Mathews Servant to Octavius Caesar ........ Gerald Metcalfe First Citizen ........................ Rex Everhart Second Citizen ...................... Jerry Stiller Third Citizen ......................... Jack Cannon Fourth Citizen ....................... Robert Hacha Fifth Citizen ..................... Dorothy Whitney Sixth Citizen .......................... Ben Janney Messenger .......................... Walter Mathews
Production Credits
Directed by Denis CareyScenery Designed by Horace Armistead
Costumes by Robert Fletcher
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
Music by Lehman Engel
Conductor: Frederick Smithson
| Julius Caesar was the inaugural presentation of the American Shakespeare Festival |