History’s Greatest Love Story told by History’s Greatest Writer.

 

The play picks up the story begun in Julius Caesar, with the Roman world ruled by the triumvirate of Antony, Octavius Caesar and Lepidus.  As personal betrayals and political ambitions threaten to tear apart the Roman Republic, the passionate relationship between Antony and Cleopatra is put under increasing pressure.

 

The play is classed the last and most poetic of Shakespeare’s Tragedies, but mixes comedy with high drama in a way that no other writer had done before.

 

The Open Air Theatre is a fabulous setting for a play often called cinematic because of the fast cutting between scenes across the Roman world.  With the glamour of Roman and Egyptian costumes, it’s Shakespeare as intended; outdoor, pacy, colourful and up close to the audience.

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“(It) is something radically new and is a play that no-one has been able to match”

Harold Bloom