About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:

OPS Fest brings FREE, family-friendly Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter/"referee." Gender fluid casting is our jam, and you'll never see the same show twice!

BYO chairs or blanket.

See our full season schedule here; various performances through Aug. 29.

Julius Caesar in 50 words:

War, conspiracy, omens, assassination, and a ghost! The too ambitious Caesar is killed by a group of high-ranking political conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius. Fleeing Rome, they are defeated in battle by Antony and Octavius, Caesar's heir; but it's only after the battle that the bodies start piling up...

Julius Caesar

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