Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Jim Warren for the resident company at ASC, VA. 13 September, 2015. By Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham) Although Staunton’s Blackfriars was constructed first, my experience of it comes through having seen several shows previously in the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Virginia’s theatre feels very like the Wanamaker, if the […]
Directed and adapted by Tiago Rodrigues, based on a translation by Rui Carvalho Homen. Performers: Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz Date seen: 13th June, 2015 Reviewed by Francesca Rayner Within the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra has been entirely absent from Portuguese theatre history. In fact, the only performance registered at all is a 1987 […]
Antony and Cleopatra, a rehearsed reading of Dir. George Costigan York Theatre Royal, York 22 February 2015 My relationship with Antony and Cleopatra is as unstable as its protagonists’. Seeing Elizabeth Taylor’s depiction of the Egyptian queen as a six year-old led to a juvenile obsession with bath salts in order to recreate her […]
Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Joe Falocco for Poor Shadows of Elysium at the Curtain Theater, Austin, Texas, 4 May 2014. Reviewed by Joseph F. Stephenson (Abilene Christian University) Though Antony and Cleopatra is certainly no obscure, little-known Shakespearean play, it is in fact not very often performed outside the major professional companies in large cities. […]
Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Originally published on stevementz.com on 3 March 2014. Review by Steve Mentz About half a minute into the performance, when Jonathan Cake’s impossibly tall and shirtless Antony strained heavenward while commanding Rome to melt into the Tiber, my eleven-year old daughter Olivia, seeing the play for the first time, […]
Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney, RSC Swan Theatre, November 2013. Review by Andrew Cowie. When Charles Spencer described the RSC’s 2013 Antony and Cleopatra in The Telegraph newspaper as a ‘travesty’ and ‘a fiasco’ connoisseurs of train-wreck theatre hurried to book their tickets. All the warning signs were there; a young American director, Tarell […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. At the end of May Yukio Ninagawa’s Cymbeline was performed at the Barbican in London, as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. John Lavagnino saw it there and reviewed it for […]
‘The isle is full of noises….’ Well, it certainly will be as the Olympic Games open with a ceremony that takes as its keynote these words from The Tempest. One of the noises will be the resonant sound of the great bell, the biggest in Europe – twice the size of Big Ben – which […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. Antony and Cleopatra (Antonius ile Kleopatra), Oyun Atölyesi, Dir. Kemal Aydoğan, 26 & 27 May 2012 at The Globe, London, reviewed by Michael Dobson & Adele Lee Saturday 26 May 2012 By […]
