Antony and Cleopatra


Cast Antony Cleopatra Canidius Scarus Enobarbus Mardian Alexas Charmian Iras Octavius Caesar Ledipus Agrippa Thidius Dolabella Ponpey Menas Octavia A Soothsayer Egyptian Messener Eros Officers, Soldiers, Attendants: Credits Playwright Staged by Production designed by Lighting by Music and Songs by	Name Robert Ryan Katharine Hepburn Douglas Watson John Harkins Donald Davis Patrick Hines Earle Hyman Rae Allen Anne Fielding John Ragin Morris Carnovsky Will Geer John Myhers Stephen Strimpell Clifton James Claude Woolman Sada Thompson Richard Waring Ted Van Grithuysen Clayton Corzarette John Abbey, Stephen Carnovsky, David Groh, Donald Hatch, Charles Herrick, Lloyd Hezekia, Joseph Kleinowski, Alfred Lavorato, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Packer, Christian Parker, George Parrish, Don Pomes, Howard Poyrow, Robert Reilly, Loy Robb, George Sampson, Frank Spencer, Richard Thayer, Herman Tucker Name William Shakespeare Jack Landau Rouben Ter-Arutunian Tharon Musser Herman Chessid

Tour dates

The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre - Stratford - Connecticut
Premiere: July 22, 1960
Performances: 25

Plot Summary

The plot follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.

Critics' reviews

Richard Watts Jr. – New York Post
"Miss Hepburn offers a highly versatile performance as Cleopatra, changing from kittenish comedy to tigerish passion, occasionally seeming to be playing Beatrice, once or twice going for her famous mannerisms and always being fascinating to watch."

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