/cleopatra

Adapted and directed by: Liz Peterson
Dramaturgs: Alexis Williams + Phoebe Brooks
Producer: Joanna Pisano
Asst Producer: Abigail Williams-Joseph
PSM: Amy Rauchwerger
ASM: Sam Clarke
Company Manager: Eva Wang
Set designers: Josh Barilla, Liz Peterson, and Tavish Miller
Costumes: Rachel Dozier-Ezell
Lighting: Betsy Chester
Sound: Lucky Bommireddy
Props: Josh Barilla
Projections: Davine Byon

Performed by: Laurel Andersen, Sanam Erfani, Saskia Naidoo, Oreine Robinson, Claudia Thiedmann, Will Thomae, and Joe Laureiro.

Performance dates
Lenfest Center for the Arts; New York, NY
April 7th-10th, 2022

Cleopatra is a performance about the making of an icon and a response to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Captured from the toxic hallucinations of Shakespeare’s characters Charmian, Iras, Alexas and Mardian. Their memories are held delicately on a chain curtain projection surface; this image wavers, doubles, blurs, and breaks as they struggle to piece together the social and political chaos that surrounds Cleopatra.