National Theatre Live: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

Fiery and dangerous, deeply intimate

Captured live from the National Theatre in the UK, and Tony Award winners Ralph Fiennes (Academy Award nominee, Schindler’s List and The English Patient) and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

Writer – William Shakespeare, set designer – Hildegard Bechtler, costume designer - Evie Gurney, lighting designer - Tim Lutkin. Antony & Cleopatra plays in an encore showing at Palace Cineplex only, 11:30 a.m. this Sunday, April 14.