Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s 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.

The screening will be followed by a short discussion with guest speakers Ann Marie Pollard (assistant professor of practice in voice, movement, and acting), Julia Schleck (associate professor of English and a faculty member in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at UNL), and Michael Lippman (associate professor of practice in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at UNL).