River Oaks Theatre Special Presentation – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: Antony and Cleopatra

River Oaks Theatre presents a Special Presentation – Shakespeare's Globe on Screen: Antony and Cleopatra.  One Show Only! Thursday, June 4 at 7:00pm.

Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two.

The third of the Roman Tragedies offered this spring (Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar), Antony and Cleopatra picks up Antony’s story many years after Julius Caesar. Virtue and vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breath-taking beauty and magnificence.

The Globe’s 2014 envisioning of this iconic play encapsulates these themes whilst deftly threading a sense of comedy throughout, and Olivier Award-winner Eve Best’s Cleopatra ‘kisses the audience’ (Guardian) with her ‘magnetically humorous’ (Evening Standard) performance.

Director: Jonathan Munby
Cast (in alphabetical order): Ignatius Anthony, Peter Bankolé, Eve Best, Jonathan Bonnici, Phillip Correia, Jolyon Coy, Phil Daniels, Paul Hamilton, James Hayes, Rosie Hilal, Sean Jackson, Daniel Rabin, Sirine Saba, Obioma Ugoala, Clive Wood

Run Time: 179 minutes (including 15-minute interval)