Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopatra

Yanna McIntosh is a formidable Cleopatra, dominating everyone around her with a quicksilver temperament, clearly depicted in this production as a masterful command of acting techniques -- a tribute that attaches itself to both the glorious Queen of the Nile and the actress embodying her.

Geraint Wyn Davies is an engaging, full-blooded Antony who doesn't stand a chance against her wiles. The strong ensemble cast includes Tom McCamus as an unusually sympathetic Enobarbus, and Ben Carlson as a deliciously punctilious Octavius Caesar.