ET TU BRUTE

By Jacob Wall

Sierra Lee

& Dallin Younger

Jacob Wall as Brutus

Sierra Lee as

Calpurnia, and Mark Antony

Portia,

Dallin Younger as Caesar and Cassius

Caesar returns, victorious, from his battle with Pompey’s sons.

He is greeted by the cheering citizens of Rome

Cassius does not like that the citizens have changed their allegiance so readily from Pompey to Caesar.

He tries to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy.

Brutus tells Cassius that he will think about it over the next few days.

Unbeknownst to Brutus, Cassius has a couple of tricks up his sleeve.

Cassius has letters planted at Brutus’s house trying to convince him to join the conspiracy.

The night before the Ides of March the conspirators meet Brutus to persuade him to join their cause.

After days of thought on his part, he decides to join for the good of Rome.

Portia sees the meeting between Brutus and the conspirators. She begs him to tell her what is going on between him and the conspirators.

To prove her strength to Brutus she shows him the voluntary wound that she gave herself.

That same night, Calpurnia has dreams that warn her of an impeeding danger to Caesar.

She wakes and tells Caesar of the dreams that she has had. She also tells him of the other omens that she has heard of and seen around the city.

Despite her pleadings and warnings, Caesar decides to go to the capitol.

That day at the capitol the conspirators make their move. They surround Caesar and begin to stab him. One stab in particular was the most surprising.

“Et tu, Brute?”

They finish Caesar leaving him dead on the floor.

Following his death, Antony hears word from the capitol and arrives to meet the conspirators. He asks to speak at the funeral of Caesar, and the conspirators allow him to do so, but on their terms.

Brutus speaks first, giving the people the reasons why Caesar had to be killed.

Foolishly, Brutus leaves after his speech allowing Antony to speak to the people alone.

Once alone, Antony speaks to the people using sarcasm and wit to turn the them against the conspirators. Antony’s speech turns their anger against the conspirators and they begin to become restless.

Antony then pulls out Caesar’s will and the people beg for Antony to read it.

Antony reads the will and this enrages the people. They begin to riot, and go after the conspirators burning their houses and killing them as they find them.

Months later, after the conspirators have been pushed out of Rome, Brutus and Cassius finally meet again. They argue for a while over various things that have happened since the Ides of March.

Remembering the matters at hand they forgive one another and move on.

After some strategic planning they decide that it would be best for them to march on to Philippi. There they will meet Octavius and Antony to have a final battle.

After arriving at Philippi they meet Antony and Octavius. They trash talk each other and then the battle commences.

After some time Brutus’s and Cassius’s forces are being overwhelmed. Cassius sees some troops in the distance and tells Titinius to go and see who they are. He rides off and from Cassius’s point of view, it seems as if he is captured by the enemy. After this mistaken turn of events he orders Pindarus to stab him through with his sword as he covers his face. This is the end of Cassius.

Some time later after Cassius’ suicide Brutus realizes that their fight is now a lost cause. He sees that they are about to be overwhelmed and orders the rest of his men to flee from the battlefield. He and Strato remain; he has Strato hold his sword and cover his eyes so that he can run upon it himself. He does this ending his own life.

After all this has happened, Antony comes upon the dead body of Brutus. He asks Strato where Brutus is and Strato declares him to have been set free. Antony allows the rest of Brutus’ men to live and declares Brutus to be the noblest Roman of them all.