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Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

By
Niky Rathbone
Edited by
Stanley Wells
Stanley Wells
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Summary

Most of the productions listed are by professional companies, but some amateur productions and adaptations are included. Information is taken from programmes, supplemented by reviews, held in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library. Details have been verified wherever possible, but the nature of the material prevents corroboration in every case.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Commonweal Theatre Company, the Shaw Theatre, London and tour of South West England: 9 April 1991

Director: Tony Hegarty

Music/Enobarbus: Max Hafler

Antony: Andrew McDonald

Cleopatra: Susan Curnow

The set used Egyptian lettering to symbolize Egypt and Roman to symbolize Rome. The Romans, in black, recalled Mussolini's Fascists.

Talawa Theatre Company, the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and tour: 24 April 1991

Director: Yvonne Brewster

Designer: Helen Turner

Antony: Jeffery Kissoon

Cleopatra: Dona Croll

An all-black cast.

Birmingham Repertory Theatre: 6 April-4 May 1991

Director: John Adams

Designer: Roger Butlin

Antony: Malcolm Tierney

Cleopatra: Sylvia Syms

A traditional production.

Adaptation

All for Love by John Dryden

The Almeida Theatre, Islington, London: 25 April 1991

Director: Jonathan Kent

Designers: Peter J. Davison and Sue Willmington

Music: Jonathan Dove

Antony: James Laurenson

Cleopatra: Diana Rigg

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Shakespeare Survey , pp. 191 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1993

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