Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar

Kip Williams’s Sydney Theatre Company production uses smartphones and post-Capitol riot energy to take Shakespeare’s classic to a sadistic new place

The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energy of post-Capitol riot politics.

We asked the director, Kip Williams, and his cast to let us in on some of the thinking behind this unique staging and reveal some of the backstage secrets of a show that mixes old-school “theatre magic” with cutting-edge technology.

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