Act 2 Scene 2

OCTAVIUS Welcome to Rome.

Antony (Patrick Stewart) returns to Rome and meets Octavius Caesar (John Hopkins) and Lepidus (James Hayes).

Act 1 Scene 1

CLEOPATRA If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) threatens Antony (Patrick Stewart) with a whip as she leads him on with his hands tied.

Act 1 Scene 1

ANTONY There's not a minute of our lives should stretch without some pleasure now.

Antony (Patrick Stewart) is infatuated with Cleopatra (Harriet Walter).

Act 2 Scene 7

OCTAVIUS I had rather fast from all, four days, than drink so much in one.

Antony (Patrick Stewart) hands Octavius Caesar (John Hopkins) a bowl, as he relunctantly joins in the drinking on Pompey's ship.

Act 4 Scene 4

ANTONY Thou art the armourer of my heart.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) helps Eros (Chris Jarman) put on on Antony's armour (Patrick Stewart).

Act 4 Scene 8

ANTONY Give me thy hand. Through Alexandria make a jolly march.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) joins Antony (Patrick Walter) in his celebrations.

Act 3 Scene 13

ANTONY Cold-hearted towards me?

After finding Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) kissing Thidias, Antony (Patrick Stewart) forgives her.

Act 4 Scene 8

ANTONY Heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, applauding our approach.

A triumphant Antony (Patrick Stewart) is carried by a soldier (David Rubin).

Act 4 Scene 15

CLEOPATRA Our strength is all gone into heaviness, that makes the weight.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter), Charmian (Golda Rosheuvel) and Iras (Emma Jay Thomas) haul a dying Antony (Patrick Stewart) up into the monument.

Act 4 Scene 15

CLEOPATRA The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) faints, overcome at the death of Antony (Patrick Stewart)

Act 5 Scene 2

CLEOPATRA Rather on Nilus' mud lay me stark nak'd and let the waterflies blow me into abhorring!

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) refuses to go with Proculeius (Rob Carroll) to Rome, saying she will find a way to kill herself instead.

Act 5 Scene 2

CLEOPATRA My master and my lord I must obey.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) kneels before Caesar (John Hopkins).

Act 5 Scene 2

CLEOPATRA Give me my robe; put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) is dressed in robes by Iras (Emma Jay Thomas) and Charmian (Golda Rosheuvel).

Act 5 Scene 2

CLEOPATRA With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate of life at once untie.

Cleopatra (Harriet Walter) prepares to die by being bitten by an asp. (This production featured a live but harmless snake!)

Harriet Walter (Cleopatra) rehearses a scene with her attendants (Allyson Brown, Emma Jay Thomas and Golda Rosheuvel).

Chris Jarman (The Soothsayer) rehearses with Golda Rosheuvel (Charmian), watched by Cleopatra's attendands (Ravi Aujla, Allyson Brown and Julian Bleach).

Harriet Walter (Cleopatra), Golda Rosheuvel (Charmian) and Emma Jay Thomas (Iras) rehearse the scene where Cleopatra finds out that Antony has married Octavia.

Gregory Doran watches the chemistry develop between his Antony and Cleopatra as Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter rehearse. Behind the desks, Greg's team watches supportively, rather than critically.

The company rehearse the barge scene. Director Gregory Doran explained that the soldiers are relaxing because they've averted a war.

Harriet Walter (Cleopatra) lies on blankets as she rehearses Act 1 Scene 1.

John Hopkins rehearses Caesar's relunctant participation in the drinking games. In the theatre, the table tops on the floor were hung from the roof so they sway, as if on a ship.

Gregory Doran encouraged the actors to engage in the 'Bacchanalian spirit' which leads to the dance at the end of the barge scene.

Gregory Doran encouraged the actors to engage in the 'Bacchanalian spirit' which leads to the dance at the end of the barge scene.

The company rehearse arrangements for Act 1 Scene 1.

Director Gregory Doran was seen to have a tear in his eye as he watched the chemistry develop between his Antony and Cleopatra (Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter)! Behind him is Steve Marmion, Assistant Director.

At the end of barge scene, Menas (David Rubin, right) invites Enorbarbus (Ken Bones) onto his barge. The text can be read to imply a homosexual relationship - but this production did not emphasise this.

Gregory Doran wanted the barge scene to look like it might get out of control. Ariyon Bakare (Pompey) embraces this idea by tipping a bowl of water over himself.

Joseph Alessi (Ventidius) and Rob Carroll (Silius) initially played this scene (Act 3 Scene 1) upbeat but after investigating the text, they realised these soldiers would be exhausted. Often this scene is cut.