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Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End
From: Sunday, 25th June 2006
To: Sunday, 8 October 2006

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Synopsis

Antony and Cleopatra tells of the overwhelming passions of two magnetic personalities who hold the destiny of a third of the world in their hands. Antony is a warrior and a lover, torn between his military duties and the erotic charms of the sensuous Egyptian court. At the heart is Cleopatra. "Serpent of old Nile", storym and unpredictable. Their love eventually triumphs with their noble deaths, but not before all else is lost.

Our Review:

6 July 2006

It was interesting to speculate just how many people would have been at the Globe�s press night for Antony and Cleopatra if it had been England playing in the World Cup semi-final (with which it clashed).

Those who were there witnessed a dynamic and compelling Cleopatra from Frances Barber; it�s a pity that the rest of the cast couldn�t compete with her. There have been plenty of disappointing productions of this play in the last few years but Barber brought life to Dominic Dromgoole�s rather staid production: to labour the footballing metaphor, it was rather like watching the rest of the players trying to keep with France�s Zinedine Zidane.

Barber�s is the best Cleopatra I�ve seen since Judi Dench�s in the mid-1980s. But whereas Dench�s was a portrayal aware of her failing sexual allure, Barber�s is full of fire; a woman well aware of her powerful sexuality, flirting with her servants (male, female and eunuch alike) and well aware of her volati...

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