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Antony's Rome is equally unexpected. Triumvirate members Antony, Caesar and Lepidus meet around a heavy, morbid table behind a map of the Mediterranean region painted on the floor. The room has no walls, and one imagines it, like any proper war room, to be smoke-filled and poorly-lit. Like the soldiers in HRDC's fall production of Macbeth, members of Caesar's forces are dressed in tuxedos...
...battle of Actium, which marks the end of the Hellenistic Age and beginning of the Roman Empire. As Foley's interpretation sees it, however, Antony and Cleopatra follows Antony's infatuation with Cleopatra and a long line of her betrayals: first, when she aligns herself with Caesar; second, when she withdraws her ship in the midst of battle and leads Antony to a shameful retreat; and finally, when she sends fraudulent news of her suicide to lure Antony back to her palace but drives him instead to his own death. Intermingled are the tragic stories of Antony's two wives...
Superficiality aside, though, Cleopatra is the play's central character. While other characters and especially Antony himself seem to speak in a vacuum, characters react to her words and bend themselves to her minutest whims. Only Caesar seems to know that flattery is the sole path to Cleopatra's mind and motivations...
...Caesar appears at first to be an emblem of the strong, silent type who sits at the war room table and speaks in slow, measured syllables. Had Egan's character not developed through the play, he would still have maintained a powerful presence. Egan's Caesar, however, shows an intensely emotional side to his character in his dealings with sister Octavia. Before her wedding to Antony, Caesar speaks to her with a remarkable tenderness that stands in strong--but not incongruous--contrast to his unfeeling military persona...
...listener up in production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion starts to shriek. The reason? Because...