Julius Caesar

Directed by: Alisha Huber

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes place in a world of male power and dominance. The Rome of Shakespeare’s play is an arena of male competition, in which the female characters attempt to avert tragedy but find themselves powerless to do so. The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company takes on this testosterone-filled play with an entirely female cast, exploring the performance of gender and challenging preconceptions of male and female. Alisha Huber directs a cast featuring Pigeon Creek actors Heather Folkvord as Brutus, Katherine Mayberry as Cassius, and Kate Bode as Caesar.
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The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company

Based in Grand Haven, Michigan, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company was founded in the summer of 1998 by Chicago-area actor and director Frank Farrell and a group of local actors, including current executive director Katherine Mayberry. The company began performing the works of William Shakespeare outdoors in the Ottawa County Parks each summer. These performances included A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and a hiking production of As You Like It.

In December of 2002, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company began a Repertory Company which consisted of a troupe of 5-11 actors who performed programs of scenes from Shakespeare and his contemporaries in non-traditional spaces, including coffee houses, book stores, bed and breakfasts, and churches. The Repertory Company specializes in adapting performances to each individual space, incorporating the atmosphere and architecture into each scene. In 2007, the Repertory Company performed its first full-length production, The Winter's Tale. This production was also the company's first to travel out of state.

2008, the company’s tenth anniversary, marked the first year-long season for the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, and included five productions: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Richard III, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. In addition to these full-length productions, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company continued to perform scenes in a variety of Michigan venues and to conduct educational programming in many university and secondary classrooms.

The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company is an Original Practices company which is dedicated to bringing to its performances the authentic practices of Shakespeare and his actors. These practices include such performance elements as universal lighting (all lights on), audience contact (speaking directly to audience members), live music (performed by the actors), and doubling (one actor playing multiple roles).

The company’s 2009 season will include productions of King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, and Pericles.

Please visit www.pcshakespeare.com for more information about the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company and its practices.