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Antony and Cleopatra

October 2023

  • Ita O’Brien, right, at work during a rehearsal of Antony and Cleopatra in Barcelona.

    Barcelona opera production among first to use intimacy coordinator

    Ita O’Brien says producers initially questioned need for her role in staging of Antony and Cleopatra

June 2023

  • Judi Dench with her friend Brendan O’Hea

    ‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play

    The Oscar-winning star discusses her Shakespearean roles and the characters she brought to life in watercolours in her new book

January 2023

  • Ayesha Dharker, Adjoa Andoh and Leila Farzad in Richard II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2019.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Richard II, All of Us and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, a festival of mime and a rock’n’roll panto

April 2022

  • Michael Billington

    It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

    Michael Billington
    Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

May 2020

  • Sophie Okonedo in Antony and Cleopatra in 2018.

    Lockdown culture
    To Egypt, with love: Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre

  • Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes in Antony and Cleopatra, 2018.

    Lockdown culture
    This week's best culture, at home – from superlative Shakespeare to a walk along Offa's Dyke

April 2020

  • Benedict Cumberbatch (Victor Frankenstein) and Jonny Lee Miller (The Creature) in Frankenstein in 2011.

    Lockdown culture
    Danny Boyle's Frankenstein reanimated for National Theatre streaming service

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost by Deafinitely Theatre, David Tennant as Richard II, The Winter’s Tale at the Barbican and Josette Simon as Cleopatra.

    Lockdown culture
    Play on! 12 of the best Shakespeare productions to stream

August 2019

  • Anguis, featuring Janet Kumah, Peter Losasso and Paksie Vernon.

    Anguis review – what if Cleopatra went on Desert Island Discs?

    Playwright Sheila Atim puts a female scientist on stage with the pharaoh to chat about music, men and misrepresentation

November 2018

  • Sophie Okonedo, who stars opposite Ralph Fiennes in Antony and Cleopatra, spends a moment with milk snake Pork Pie

    Love and hisses: Cleopatra star Sophie Okonedo on acting with live snakes

  • Ralph Fiennes with Sophie Okonedo, who won best actor and best actress at the Evening Standard theatre awards.

    Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo win at Evening Standard theatre awards

September 2018

  • Georgia Landers, Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Gloria Obianyo in Antony and Cleopatra.

    The week in theatre: Antony and Cleopatra; Touching the Void; Poet in da Corner – review

    Ralph Fiennes’s Antony grapples with a midlife crisis while Sophie Okonedo’s Cleopatra is the ultimate diva in an outstanding production at the National
  • At the top of their game … Sophie Okonedo as Cleopatra and Ralph Fiennes as Antony.

    Antony and Cleopatra review – Okonedo and Fiennes are a magnificent match

    Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusion
  • Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes in Antony and Cleopatra

    Cleopatras comin' atcha: queens of the Nile on stage and screen - in pictures

    Sophie Okonedo plays Cleopatra in a new production at the National Theatre in London. From Liz Taylor to Mark Rylance, here’s a reminder of the other stars who have ruled as the Egyptian leader

August 2018

  • dance-autumn-reviews-2018

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Dazzling drama: the unmissable theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2018

    Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love

March 2017

  • Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    Julius Caesar/Antony and Cleopatra review – Rome truths from the RSC

  • Josette Simon

    Josette Simon: 'Powerful women are reduced to being dishonourable'

April 2016

  • The Complete Walk was filmed in locations including Egypt, Italy, Scotland and Greece.

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    The world’s a stage: short films mark anniversary of Shakespeare's death

  • Michael Billington

    Shakespeare 400
    Still got it – why Shakespeare lives on from Warsaw to Vegas

    Michael Billington

January 2016

  • Harriet Walter as Cleopatra in 2006

    How we staged Shakespeare
    Harriet Walter on Antony and Cleopatra: 'You have to play it fast or it falls apart'

    In a new series to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, leading actors, directors, designers and others offer their own guides to his plays. Harriet Walter starts off with a tragedy that demands to be performed at speed
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