The Brutes

Casey Wimpee’s wild and gripping drama, The Brutes, takes you backstage of an historic performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar featuring the renowned theatrical Booth family – brothers Edwin, Junius Jr., and John Wilkes Booth. This was the first and only time that the three brothers shared a stage together. The backstage drama becomes the focus of this portrait of their tempestuous relationship fraught with political conflict ending in an American tragedy.