See it if you love Shakespeare or actors in the cast.
Don't see it if you're not a fan of Shakespeare and/or like your plays to move at a brisk pace. Read more
See it if You want to see two of our greatest contemporary actors doing Shakespeare.
Don't see it if You're not a fan of the Bard. - you'll be bored rigid.
Sophie Okonedo is a magnificent Cleopatra to Ralph Fiennes’s jaded Antony in this rollicking political thriller.
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It’s a long evening but an increasingly rewarding one, which needs only fine-tuning from Fiennes to become perhaps a great one.
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The great merit of Simon Godwin's fast-moving, modern dress and hugely intelligent production in the vast space of the Olivier, is its extreme lucidity. A lot goes on, but we always understand its meaning and its emotional impact.
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Simon Godwin's modern-dress version gives it a contemporary sheen, but also a more propulsive cinematic flow, too. As splendidly designed by Hildegard Bechtler, it is both truly epic and intimate, as required.
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Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusion.
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These are fine performances, rich in detail, full of passion’s tremulous desire, yet movingly tempered by the rue of middle age...Compassionate, politically astute and psychologically perceptive.
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Simon Godwin's production of the Shakespearean tragedy proves to be an astute and moving work.
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Okonedo is magical in the first half, and Fiennes dominates the second...But this interpretation is full of detail, intelligence and humanity.
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