Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare
directed by Gerald Baker

Julius Caesar is dead: his right-hand man, Antony, and his legal heir, Octavius, have divided the Roman Empire between them in an uneasy peace. But Antony has become deeply enraptured by the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And she's as ambitious and wily and seductive a politician as any Roman.

Shakespeare's tragedy, almost his last play of this kind, is replete with romance and politics. As Antony's affair with Cleopatra strains and cracks, so his grip on empire weakens, leaving his rival Octavius space to claim it all. In language of dazzling poetry and glamour and compression, Shakespeare shows us the two legendary lovers over the hill and running out of time........

Saturday 6th to Saturday 13th March 2010
Performances at 7.45pm, except for Sunday 7th March at 4pm
There is also a matinee at 3pm on Saturday, 13th March. There is no performance on Wednesday, 10th March.

Other past productions

1. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
2. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
3. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
4. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
5. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
6. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
7. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
8. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
9. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
10. King John - William Shakespeare
11. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
12. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
13. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
14. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
15. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
16. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
17. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
18. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
19. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
20. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
21. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
22. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
23. Iron - Rona Munro
24. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
25. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
26. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
27. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
28. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
30. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
31. Harvey - Mary Chase
32. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
33. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
34. Henry V - William Shakespeare
35. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
36. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
37. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
38. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
39. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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