William Shakespeare (1564-1642)
Mesure pour mesure, tragi-comédie satirique et morale

Naana Agyei-Ampadu
Kurt Egyiawan
Trevor Fox
Mariah Gale
Dennis Herdman
Rosie Hilal
James Lailey
Joel MacCormack
Petra Massey
Dean Nolan
Brendan O'Hea
Paul Rider
Dominic Rowan
Royal Shakespeare Company
Dominic Dromgoole, direction

Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s great historical love story, a tragedy infused with comic elements that explores the conflicting claims of sex and power, expressed in poetry of breathtaking beauty. Conveying the polarities of Rome and Egypt, Jonathan Munby’s ‘exquisitely understated’ (Independent) Globe production effortlessly captures the play’s cinematic rhythm, with Clive Wood cast as a ruffian, ‘indomitable’ Antony (Financial Times) and Eve Best ‘restlessly sensual’ (Guardian) in her lauded portrayal of the mercurial Cleopatra.