All-Female Julius Caesar Silences Teens on School Tour — SkimNews
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- RSC's revival of Phyllida Lloyd's all-female, prison-set Julius Caesar, led by Harriet Walter, is touring schools as part of the First Encounters program.
- The Ormiston Bushfield Academy showing in Peterborough played to a hall full of teens who sat in pin-drop silence, which the reviewer called a thrilling introduction to Shakespeare.
- The stripped-back staging — a repurposed hall with ascending seating — was used by the RSC to strip Shakespeare's text down for a school-age audience.
Why it matters: The RSC is deliberately betting on a high-concept, all-female Shakespeare production to reach teens who may never see professional theater, and the reviewer's account of unbroken teenage silence during Julius Caesar indicates the artistic gamble is landing with exactly that age group.
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