Journey with the Soothsayer, as Bard Fest steps into one of the most colossal yet personal love stories of history. The two lovers’ passion ignites and changes an entire world. Cleopatra and Antony’s destinies are still felt today.

Nasrullah  Mambrol  writes , "If Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth conclude with the prescribed pity and terror, Anthony and Cleopatra ends very differently with pity and triumph, as the title lovers, who have  lost  the  world,  enact  a  kind  of  triumphant  marriage  in  death.  Losing  everything,  they  manage  to  win  much more  by  choosing  love  over  worldly  power."

"A.C. Bradley considered only four of Shakespeare's characters to be inexhaustible, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, and Iago....of Shakespeare's representations of women, Cleopatra's is the most subtle and formidable."  --  Harold Bloom