Antony & Cleopatra

Year: 2018
Country: Great Britain
: Simon Godwin
: Hildegard Bechtler
: Tim Lutkin
: Kev McCurdy
: Michael Bruce
: Christopher Shutt
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Nicholas Le Prevost
Genre: theatre production
Runtime: 206 min.
Age: 16+
Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes 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.

Awards & Festivals:

Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners 2018: Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo win acting awards