ANTONY & CLEOPATRA NATIONAL THEATRE IN HD at Ridgefield Playhouse

ENCORE IN HD PRESENTATIONBroadcast from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeares famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion, and power. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war. Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux Stratagem.Underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz & Steven Goldstone, and Sabina & Walter Slavin.