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Could you give up everything for love? Ignore your responsibilities, fail to act in your own self-interest? Desert your wife and children? Provoke a civil war involving half the world? When would you decide it wasn't worth it? Dryden's version of the Antony and Cleopatra story has been described as 'the greatest classical tragedy in English'. Written as a deliberate challenge to Shakespeare, using the unities of space, time and action to focus on the intensity of the central relationship, it is a brilliant study of mutual obsession in circumstances where it is disastrous. Set in the exotic East the play explores the clash between Roman and Egyptian, court eunuchs and stoic general and subversively suggests that wife and friends are less important than one great love.T0940784617Company Artifice. | |
| 5 Sep 00 to 24 Sep 00 | BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168 listing details L01264973778 |
T01153112654Director Jonathan Reason. | |
| 8 Feb 00 to 26 Feb 00 | Royal George Pub Theatre, Outer London :: V1405 listing details L02003671836 |
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