From Clare Higgins

Now is the winter of my disinterment

Made glorious news by common digger’s hand.

In a new world they have unearth’d my bones:

Where barded steeds once galloped off to war,

Now metal horses thunder o’er the roads,

And men have stationed them above my grave.

Five hundred summers I slept in the earth

Once grim-faced war robbed me of life betimes.

What good I did was with me deep interr’d;

My honor wounded by a playwright’s pen.

Though I’ll be buried as befits a king,

The scholars still debate my history.

And yet what secrets I would fain unlock,

To all the world’s ears, if my bones could talk.

By Clare Higgins



Mark Your Calendar

February 27, Opening Night: All Tickets $5!

Coming Next

"The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"

William Shakespeare's political drama of ambition, intrigue, betrayal, assasination and war. Joseph Stiliano directs this twenty-first century look at a story that, unfortunately, remains topical and relevant. Can society learn from its past, or is it doomed to endure the quest for power that tears at the fabric of humanity?

The players are: David Adams, Cassius; Jonathan Arnold, Mark Antony; David Cluett, Brutus; Stephanie Cochran, Decia; Richard Crowell, Flavius, Metellus; Timothy Edwards, Lucius; Ashlee Holm, Portia; Ray Jenness, Cicero, Artemidorous, Lepidus; Ian O'Connor, Marullus, Messala; Craig Owen, Julius Caesar; Dominic Parry, Publius, Pindarus; Timothy Edwards, Octavian; Matthew Recine, Ttinius; Jim Robinson, Trebonius, Lucilius; Jessie Sorrells, Calpurnia, Cinna the Poet; Ken Stoeffler, Casca, Claudius; Pauline Wright, Cinna.

February 27 - March 2 at 8 PM; March 3 at 3 PM

Gorton Theatre (home of the Gloucester Stage Company)

267 East Main Street, Gloucester

Tickets are $15, general admission; $10, students; $5, under 19.

Available at the door 45 minutes before performance time or reserve at cast2008@prodigy.net .

Season 2012 - 13 Opener



CASTING FOR JULIUS CAESAR

Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe is casting its March production, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar". Rehearsals begin December 4th, break for the holidays and start again on January 3d. Anyone interested in being a player or working tech/backstage support may contact director Joseph Stiliano at cast2008@prodigy.net

Seeking Talent

Casting First Production Season 2012 -13

Our first presentation of the season, "Shakespeare In Two Acts", will be performed the first two weeks of November at the Gorton Theatre ( home of the Gloucester Stage Company). The program consists of "Visiting Lear" and adaptation of "The Tragedy of King Lear", set in a nursing home, with three players performing eight roles. Open are the roles of the attendent (Kent, Fool, King of France, and Oswald) and the nurse (Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia).

The second play is "Love On A Midsummer Night", taken from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and requires five players: #1, Hermia & Titania; #2, Helena & Puck; #3, Demitrius & Bottom; #4, Lysander & Oberon; #5, Narrator.

Also needed is backstage and front of house help.

Interested parties should email cast2008@prodigy.net .