Overview

Desire and duty collide in Shakespeare’s captivating tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Two charismatic leaders, Mark Antony of Rome and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, are caught in an all-encompassing love that threatens the Empire. Rome will do all it can to pull them apart. Or it will destroy them both.

Kim Cattrall plays Cleopatra. Theatre includes Private Lives, The Cryptogram and Whose Life is it Anyway? Film includes Meet Monica Velour, The Ghost Writer and Sex and the City 1 and 2.

Michael Pennington plays Antony. Credits include The Syndicate, The Master Builder, Collaboration, Taking Sides; The Iron Lady, Judgement Day, Love is My Sin, extensive work with the RSC and his English Shakespeare Company.

Janet Suzman’s directing credits include the award-winning productions of the Johannesburg Othello, The Free State and Death of a Salesman. Acting credits include Hedda Gabler, Antony and Cleopatra and Dream of the Dog.

Read an interview with Director Janet
Suzman
Read an interview with Designer Peter McKintosh

Listen to our pre-show talk with Janet Suzman

Antony and Cleopatra Education pack

Antony and Cleopatra is co-produced with the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. 

Antony and Cleopatra is sponsored by

Festival 2012

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