'Antony': A Pale Shadow of His Shakespearean Self

The Washington Post | September 26, 2001| | Copyright

Heavy on concept and using a severely edited text for support, Washington Shakespeare Company's production of "Antony and Cleopatra," which opened Monday night, certainly comes at you from a few intriguing angles. While never quite hitting you the way it should, the show is smoothly and stylishly directed by Lofty Durham and Cam Magee.

One of Shakespeare's more complicated plays, "Antony and Cleopatra" is at its center about duty vs. self-indulgence, discipline vs. passion.

Caught in the middle of this conflict is Marc Antony, a great Roman war hero and a ruler now derelict because of the ...

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