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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

Directed by Simon Godwin

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo

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.