... despite what is almost a crew cut and some less the glorious designs ... displays dynamic stage presence and creates an exquisite sense of style and movement.

Act and Scene
Credit
Peter McCarry, Coventry Evening Telegraph
Date
1978
Copyright
©

No statuesque, impervious beauty this but a volatile, quick tempered young shrew with a lively sense of humour who flung herself around on the palace cushions in carefree and distinctly un-regal attitudes.

Act and Scene
Credit
KPC, Gloucester Citizen
Date
1972
Copyright
©

When Antony was dead, the wigs were abandoned and a serene and dignified Queen rose before us. This was a staggering transformation, a late maturing splendidly staged.

Act and Scene
Credit
Paul Lapworth, The Stratford Herald
Date
1992
Copyright
©

Cleopatra is presented without tincture of the East, a whitely wanton with no sign of “the tawny front”. . . But, right or wrong in aspect, she is splendid in feeling.

Act and Scene
Credit
Ivor Brown, The Observer
Date
1953
Copyright
©

... a tired actress in her dressing room. Time, love and defeat have ravaged her face, and she knows that she is paying for her life and fulfilling her fate.

Act and Scene
Credit
John Peter, Sunday Times
Date
1999
Copyright
©

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