FRINGE REVIEW: Antony & Cleopatra, Infinite Lives

POSTED: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 1:59 PM

Filed Under: Arts | On the Fringe Theater

Every year, there's hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it's one of the big shows, it's sometimes hard to tell what you're going to get. Here at Critical Mass we're sending writers to as many shows as we possibly can for 75 pocket-sized reviews over the course of the fest. Check back in with us at On The Fringe every day for real talk on what these things actually are!

SHOW: Antony & Cleopatra: Infinite Lives

GROUP: The Porch Room/The Underground Shakespeare Company

GENRE: Theater

ATTENDED: Fri., Sept. 14, 8 p.m.

CLOSES: Sat., Sept. 15

BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: A play-within-a-play version of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. An Egyptian expatriate gets caught between two revolutionaries—her fiancé, an activist director who tries to upend his commissioned Shakespeare production, and her brother, a nationalist fresh from the violence of Tahrir Square.

WE THINK: Not so much a play-within-a-play as a neat little play trying to sneak out from underneath and then merge with a much grander play. Perhaps a molecule too ambitious and definitely 15 minutes too long, its heart is still in the right place and its cast is excellent. Bonus points for acknowledging that many people find the line “The poop-beaten gold” to be hilarious.

—Rodney Anonymous

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