I am reading and studying Antony and Cleopatra with an eye to directing it next summer (2014).

I’ve read it a few times with that aim in mind.

Shakespeare’s plays are not simple. Their themes are complex. For example, I do not believe King Lear is merely about power, but it is rather about the search for identity. Lear’s meeting with Edgar disguised as a mad man is pivotal in the play’s march from self-absorption to self-realization.

As I read Antony and Cleopatra, dear Jelly Friends, what scenes do you believe I should be paying attention to?

Where hides the through line or, as it is sometimes called, the spine of the play?

Is this play simply about eroticism and power? or does something lie deeper?

Topics: theatre, theater, Shakespeare, theme, plays, through line