Power, honor, duty, and romance form the background for Windham High School's dramatic retelling of Shakespeare's "Antony & Cleopatra." One of his later and most well written plays, "Antony & Cleopatra" is Shakespeare's most poetic and luxuriant tragedy. The play is structured around a series of oppositions: between male and female, desire and duty, age and youth, love and war, the philosophies of Epicureanism and Stoicism, and Egypt and Rome. This production offers a colorful twist. The creative setting for the WHS production is the United States in the late 1960s, where Shakespeare’s Egyptians are replaced with hippies, and the Romans with US Army soldiers involved with Vietnam. This "framing" is intended to show that the conflicts Shakespeare wrote of centuries ago recur in contemporary times, clothed in different ways, but still with us. A cast of 29 Windham High School actors, and 8 technical crew, are gearing up to deliver three unforgettable “Antony and Cleopatra” performances on Friday and Saturday, December 9 & 10 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 11 at 1:30 pm. Tickets are $10 adults and $5 students and senior citizens, and are available at the door.
