Nicole Ari Parker and Esau Pritchett
Cleopatra was, to put it kindly, not especially well-known for her deeds, but rather for being simply well-known (in the biblical sense). Even if we don't see her "doing it" or even talking about "doing it," she is the embodiment of physical love and desire in Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra.
Funnily, there are no passionate love scenes, save a kiss and a little cuddling in this somewhat action-less play about love. As such, it puts unusual demands upon the two actors who share title billing.
Antony has the easier time of it being a liar and remarkably constant from first to last. But Cleo, an actress through and through who knows that he knows it, is changeable and yet a charmer from first to last.
What is evident from start to last is that Esau Pritchett or Nicole Ari Parker are having fun with their roles and a significant boost to the intruding languor that mars so much of this post-modernist production under the direction of Emily Mann.To read the complete review originally posted on 09/12/14 please go to http://curtainup.com/antonyandcleopatranj14.html
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