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Imperium (play cycle)

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and his failed attempts to save the Roman Republic by playing Mark Anthony and Octavian off against each other, culminating in Cicero's execution in 43 BC. The final play ends with an epilogue by Tiro, covering the later fates of Brutus, Cassius, Octavian and Mark Anthony and imagining Cicero's
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The cycle consists of six plays, each roughly one hour long, performed in two groups of three, all narrated by Cicero's slave and later freedman
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in 70 BC but mainly runs from Cicero's election campaign for consul in 64 BC until his exile in 58 BC, adapting material from the end of
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John Dougall - Rabirius (Part I) / Metellus Pius (Part I) / Lucullus (Part I) / Brutus (Part II)
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Christopher Saul - Pompey (Part I) / Murena (Part I) / Vatia (Part II)
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Guy Burgess - Verres (Part I) / Sura (Part I) / Lepidus (Part II)
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Siobhan Redmond - Terentia (Parts I and II) / Servilia (Part II)
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Patrick Knowles - Cethegus (Part I) / Dolabella (Parts I and II)
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is a stage adaptation of the Cicero trilogy of novels by
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from 16 November 2017 to 10 February 2018, directed by
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Michael Grady-Hall - Cato (Part I) / Hirtius (Part II)
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Hywel Morgan - Hybrida (Part I) / Popillius (Part II)
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Joe Dixon - Catiline (Part I) / Mark Antony (Part II)
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Nicholas Boulton - Celer (Part I) / Cassius (Part II)
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Patrick Romer - Isauricus (Part I) / Piso (Part II)
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Royal Shakespeare Company 467:, Brutus's mother (Part II) 439:, consul in 43 BC (Part II) 369:, consul in 43 BC (Part II) 347:, Chief Pontiff (Part I) / 240:and Caesar's assumption of 128:). It was premiered by the 843: 379:, Cicero's younger brother 343:, aged senator (Part I) / 220:into three plays entitled 103:Imperium: The Cicero Plays 57:16 November 2017 21:Imperium: The Cicero Plays 762:Plays set in ancient Rome 709:"Imperium I: Conspirator" 658:"Imperium Parts I and II" 546:Cast (Gielgud production) 425:, Caesar's wife (Part II) 259:Cast (premier production) 130:Royal Shakespeare Company 300:, Cicero's son (Part II) 767:English political plays 605:Richard McCabe - Cicero 351:, patrician (Part I) / 421:- Camilla (Part I) / 194:prosecution of Verres 752:Plays based on works 593:Joseph Kloska - Tiro 176:Part I - Conspirator 590:Paul Kemp - Quintus 572:Jade Croot - Tullia 310:, Cicero's daughter 264:Nicholas Boulton - 152:. It played at the 138:Stratford-upon-Avon 95:Rome, 70 BC - 43 BC 78:Stratford-upon-Avon 359:Michael Grady-Hall 242:dictatorial powers 212:Part II - Dictator 689:on 21 August 2018 552:Nicholas Armfield 204:and the start of 99: 98: 84:Original language 834: 721: 720: 718: 716: 705: 699: 698: 696: 694: 685:. 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Index

Mike Poulton
Cicero
Julius Caesar
Pompey the Great
Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Robert Harris
Imperium
Lustrum
Dictator
Royal Shakespeare Company
Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
Gregory Doran
Richard McCabe
Cicero
Gielgud Theatre
London
Tiro
prosecution of Verres
Pharsalus
Civil War
dictatorial powers
Ides of March
Dream of Scipio
Celer
Cassius
Guy Burgess
Verres
Sura

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