Antony & Cleopatra London Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (1)
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.
Critic Reviews (10)
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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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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Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusion.
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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 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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The entire endeavour shines but it is the couple at its heart that makes the play live or die and Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo are simply terrific as the lovers who tempt fate one too many times.
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