ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Rating: EX15+
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: Simon Godwin
Director: Simon Godwin
Broadcast live from the National Theatre
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. Politics and passion are violently intertwined in Shakespeare’s gripping tale of power.
