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Item details

Date

September 24, 2015 7:00PM

Location

Sarasota Opera House

Name

Antony and Cleopatra - Film

Description

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Play by William Shakespeare

Filmed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London in full High Definition.
Running time: 2 hours, 59 minutes (includes one 15 -minute intermission)
The is a filimed presentation

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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.

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 production 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.

Cast
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

Directed by Jonathan Munby
Designer Colin Richmond
Composer Jules Maxwell

Tickets for this this event go on sale April 22, 2024