Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

directed by Michael Kahn

4/26/2008 - 7/6/2008

Sidney Harman Hall (Open Configuration

Runtime: approximately 2 hours 45 minutes
with one intermission

" Fresh and exciting … STC delivers with their Roman Repertory … plays that feel clean and positively modern.”
-Metro Weekly

Featuring some of the most sublime poetry of love and loss ever written, Antony and Cleopatra is a dark, intimate portrait of an ill-fated love affair. The play begins two years after the events of Julius Caesar, with civil unrest roiling imperial Rome. The aging Marc Antony, one of the empire’s three rulers, lives a decadent life in Egypt, carousing with Queen Cleopatra. As Rome reasserts its claim on him, Antony struggles between his sense of duty to his country and his consuming love for Cleopatra. Michael Kahn directs one of Shakespeare’s last great tragedies. The Baltimore Sun extolled Kahn for molding the Shakespeare Theatre Company “into the closest thing this country has to Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Compa

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Lansburgh Theatre 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004