Country UK
Year 2018
Duration 206 minutes
Language English (Russian subtitles)
Genre Theatre
Age limit 16+
Director Simon Godwin

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

Actors

Marc Antony – Ralph Fiennes

Cleopatra – Sophie Okonedo

Enobarbus – Tim McMullan

Lepidus– Nicholas Le Prevost

Awards

Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners 2018: Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo win acting awards