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.