Thanks to those fine folks at Rusty Quill, that dream is now coming to a podcast feed near you later this very year! And we've got lots of lovely people involved...
Our historical celebrity line-up includes Lara Sawalha as Queen Cleopatra VII, Kazeem Tosin Amore as Mark Antony, and Harry Roebuck as future emperor Gaius Octavius Caesar. Wooden Overcoats listeners will know that I can't get enough of a good professional rivalry, and I've been itching to put my own spin on these characters for a long time.
Turning to characters hovering on the edges of Shakespeare's plays, Andy Secombe is the muddle-headed politician Lepidus, and Sarah Agha is Cleopatra's servant Charmian, whose need for self-expression fuels a key plotline in the series. Though fully fictional, director Quintus as played by Benjamin Garrison represents a wildly vivid Roman theatre scene that remains mostly unknown to a wider audience. Finally Ryan Hopevere-Anderson is Sextus Pompey, the Roman who ran away and became a pirate!
This is a real labour of love and I'm very excited to see where this goes when we begin recording in July! There are many more people whose splendid contributions are yet to be announced, and some extra surprises up our sleeves, so do keep an eye on Rusty Quill's socials for the latest updates...