Antony and Cleopatra
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 7, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
Opened Oct 7, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
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Antony and Cleopatra, one of Shakespeare's great historical tragedies, follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. As Hartford Stage dramaturg Christopher Baker observes in his newly published book, Shakespeare in an Hour, Antony and Cleopatra is a sweeping play of love and war, opposing the stoic, well-ordered Rome with Cleopatra's expressive, emotional Egypt.
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Tina Landau's slick, semi-modernized take on Shakespeare's tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, at the newly restored Hartford Stage, certainly doesn't stint on spectacle. Visually, the show is a knockout, thanks in large part to Blythe R.D. Quinlan's spacious, two-tiered minimalist set, lit by banks of audience-blinding klieg lights and transsected by a wading pool. Sadly, what transpires onstage never quite lives up to the implied grandeur.
One might expect more from Kate Mulgrew and John Douglas Thompson as two of the greatest lovers of all time. But the greatest love evident onstage is the one between Mulgrew and the sound of her own voice -- the calculated effects she can achieve with it, f[...]