‘In 2012,’ director Phyllida Lloyd writes in the insert to the Julius Caesar DVD, ‘for every woman working in British theatre, there were two men.’ This was the climate in which Lloyd decided to present an all-female Trilogy of Shakespeare plays, with Harriet Walter in the starring roles – beginning with Brutus in Julius Caesar.
The play, performed originally at the Donmar Warehouse, but filmed for DVD in a specially built theatre in the round in Kings Cross, is set in a women's prison – an environment which the cast found during their workshops in prisons and with theatre company Clean Break very closely resembled Caesar's Rome and the characters which emerged there.
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