Post Gazette: "Shakespeare loved the play of opposites, no more so than in 'Antony and Cleopatra,' a drama charged with the energy of competing themes -- Rome vs. Egypt, love vs. war, obligation vs. libido, man vs. woman.
His title characters are godlike creatures. Antony is Mars and Hercules, Cleopatra Venus and Isis. They embrace, part and embrace again in a world on the brink of modernity, a world where they are out of time. Their place in history elevates 'Antony and Cleopatra' into epic theater, perhaps the playwright's only true epic.
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