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{{Short description|2007 stage show written by Chris Taylor}}
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! style="font-size:120%; background:#dbe9f4; text-align:center;" colspan="2" | ''Dead Caesar''
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Written&nbsp;by
| [[Chris Taylor (comedian)|Chris Taylor]]
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Medium
| Stage
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Genre
| Musical Comedy/Satire
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Performers
| Toby Moore<br />[[Andrew Hansen]]<br />Ben Borgia<br />Ewen Leslie<br />Alan Dukes<br />Monica Sayers<br />John Leary
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Music
| Andrew Hansen
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Original Run
| 2007
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Country of origin
| Australia
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Original language
| English
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! style="text-align: right; padding-left: 1em;" | Related shows
| ''[[Cirque du Chaser]]''<br />''[[The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour]]''
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'''''Dead Caesar''''' was a 2007 stage show written by Australian comedian [[Chris Taylor (comedian)|Chris Taylor]] from [[The Chaser]]. The satirical show parodied ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', a play by [[William Shakespeare]].

==Production==
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Taylor was persuaded, while drunk, by [[Brendan Cowell]], director of Wharf 2LOUD, to write a play. He ended up writing a parody of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Julius Caesar''.<ref name="review">{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts-reviews/dead-caesar/2007/01/29/1169919257810.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1|title=Dead Caesar - Arts Review|date=2007-01-29|accessdate=2008-01-16|first=Andrew|last=Taylor}}</ref>

==Cast and crew==
[[File:Leslie Hansen in Dead Caesar.jpg|thumb|Ewen Leslie and [[Andrew Hansen]] in a scene from Dead Caesar.]]
The crew included Chaser member Andrew Hansen as composer of the music.<ref name="cast">{{cite web|url=http://davidkary.com/View-Review.asp?ReviewID=292 |title=David Kary's Review Gallery |accessdate=2008-01-16 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*Director: Tamara Cook
*Music: [[Andrew Hansen]]
*Set Designer: Bruce McKinven
*Lighting: Stephen Hawker

The main cast is as follow:<ref name="cast"/>
*Caesar: Toby Moore
*Marc Antony: Andrew Hansen
*Lucius: Andrew Hansen
*Brutus: Ben Borgia
*Cassius: Ewen Leslie
*Cicero: Alan Dukes
*Calpurnia: Monica Sayers
*The Messenger: John Leary

==See also==
* [[Assassination of Julius Caesar]]

==References==
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{{TheChaser}}
{{Julius Caesar (play)}}

[[Category:The Chaser]]
[[Category:Works based on Julius Caesar (play)]]
[[Category:Depictions of Julius Caesar in plays]]
[[Category:Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare]]