Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra lights up the stage at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre this season with performances from January 12 to February 20.
For centuries, this tale of the last Queen of Egypt and her torrid, adulterous affair with the Roman hero Mark Antony has captured the imagination. Shakespeare's brilliant parable about Empire and duty in conflict with folly and lust pitches the feminine, the fluid, the intuitive and the imagination in an all out battle with the masculine, reason, order and Empire-building. With soaring style and searing poetry he mourns the outcome and loss.
Antony and Cleopatra is considered to be one of Shakespeare's supreme imaginative achievements with Cleopatra his most compelling female role. Marthinus Basson and a cast of award winning actors bring this year's Shakespeare-in-the-Park to life.
Director Marthinus Basson
Designs Marthinus Basson
Music Braam du Toit
Lighting Faheem Bardien
Sound Lynley Pillay
Starring Tinarie Van Wyk Loots (Cleopatra) and Andre Weideman (Antony) and full cast
Presented by Artscape and The Maynardville Theatre Trust
Venue: Maynardville Open Air Theatre
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Dates Times
12 Jan 10 20:15 Preview
13 Jan 10 20:15 Preview
14 Jan 10 20:15 Preview
15 Jan 10 20:15 Preview
16 Jan 10 20:15
18 Jan 10 19:45
19 Jan 10 19:45
20 Jan 10 20:15
21 Jan 10 20:15
22 Jan 10 20:15
23 Jan 10 20:15
25 Jan 10 19:45
26 Jan 10 19:45
27 Jan 10 20:15
28 Jan 10 20:15
29 Jan 10 20:15
30 Jan 10 20:15
01 Feb 10 19:45
02 Feb 10 19:45
03 Feb 10 19:45
04 Feb 10 20:15
05 Feb 10 20:15
06 Feb 10 20:15
08 Feb 10 19:45
09 Feb 10 19:45
10 Feb 10 19:45
11 Feb 10 20:15
12 Feb 10 20:15
13 Feb 10 20:15
15 Feb 10 20:15
16 Feb 10 20:15
17 Feb 10 20:15
18 Feb 10 20:15
19 Feb 10 20:15
20 Feb 10 20:15
Price: R100 | R130 | R150
Previews: 12, 13, 14, 15 January at 20:15 Family shows: 18, 19, 25, 26 January at 19:45 2-tickets-for-the-price-of-1 School performances: 25, 26 January, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 February at 19:45 Pensioners, students & PANSA members R60 half an hour prior to performance For picnics call the Picnic Company 021 706 8470 or info@picnics.co.za
For more information, please visit http://www.artscape.co.za/show?intId=74
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