if i look back, i am lost

and we gently explained, 'you don't do that, dude. you're Caesar's friend. you're not one of the conspirators'

'but Brutus is his friend too and HE gets to stabs Caesar'

now Calpurnia and Portia and Octavius are getting upset. 'wait, do we not get to stab Caesar?' no, guys, you don't. sorry. that's the play. you remember your character's motivations, right?

half the cast realises that they don't get to assassinate Caesar and suddenly we've got 12 bloodthirsty elementary schoolers having a full meltdown because THEY WANTED TO DO SOME STABBING DAMMIT

so in the end we added a bunch of *extra conspirators* and did some quick costumes changes so that every. single. one of these kids got a chance to take a stab at Caesar

except the kid who was playing Caesar