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May 6, 2015… The steamy story of a midlife affair that shook the foundations of the ancient world comes to vivid life in the Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, starring Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh as the powerful rulers whose insatiable love leads to the greatest of tragedies. Director Gary Griffin paints an unforgettable landscape depicting the devastation wrought by the heart’s transgressions.
Filmed in spectacular HD under the direction of Barry Avrich, Antony and Cleopatra premières in cinemas throughout Canada and the U.S. on May 21. The Canadian encore screening is on June 7. U.S. encore dates vary. For more information visit www.stratfordfestival.ca/HD.
“Yanna McIntosh makes Cleopatra the consummate sexual manipulator,
proud of her talents, furious when they fail her.”
Robert Cushman, National Post
“Geraint Wyn Davies offers us an Antony of boundless charm and eternal optimism.”
Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star
“Antony and Cleopatra reminds us that sexuality is all too often wasted on the young.
Its hero and heroine are old enough to know better. Nonetheless, they crash and burn
in a sea of intense, obsessive, sexual desire — before our very eyes.”
Robert Reid, The Record
“Antony and Cleopatra has two of Shakespeare’s most soaring characters,
and the kind of final love-death sequence that great art thrives on.”
Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star
Antony and Cleopatra is produced by Melbar Entertainment Group in association with the Stratford Festival, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, and Executive Producers Barry Avrich, Anita Gaffney and Michael A. Levine.
This production is part of a massive initiative by the Stratford Festival, North America’s leading classical theatre company, to capture all of Shakespeare’s plays over the next 10 years. The series, which began with the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed production of King Lear in February, followed by King John in April and now Antony and Cleopatra, will ultimately create the first North American collection of the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Stratford Festival HD is sponsored by Sun Life Financial as part of their Making the Arts More Accessible® program, with generous support from Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney, the Jenkins Family Foundation, Ophelia & Mike Lazaridis, Sandra & Jim Pitblado and Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio.
Canadian distribution is through Cineplex Entertainment’s Front Row Centre Events, which specializes in bringing world-class events and performances to the big screen. Cinema screenings will be followed by a broadcast window on CBC-TV, Canada’s national public broadcaster. Digital and on-demand release will follow.
U.S. distribution is through BY Experience, the “live cinema event powerhouse” (Variety) that brings the highest quality international cultural events to more than 2,000 cinemas and performing arts centres in over 60 countries around the world as the Worldwide HD Distribution Representative for The Met: Live in HD series, International (ex-UK) Distribution Representative for the U.K.’s National Theatre Live series, and North American Distributor for the Bolshoi Ballet cinema series.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlemvfuKyeE
Photo: Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh. ©2013 Don Dixon.
2015-05-06
Stratford: Film of Stratford Festival's "Antony and Cleopatra" premieres in cinemas May 21