Caesar and Cleopatra

“The bearer of evil tidings” arrives at Cleopatra’s moonlit palace—and the guards welcome him with honor. Rome is coming, but Belzanor’s men still believe themselves descended from the gods.

On Egypt’s Syrian border in 48 B.C., the queen’s guards gamble and trade jokes beneath the palace walls, until battle-scarred Bel Affris describes the Roman legion that scattered his men. In Bernard Shaw’s 1898 play, Cleopatra has been driven from Egypt by her brother Ptolemy, and Julius Caesar is advancing into the country. She must face a conqueror who fights to win, while the nobles around her mistake pride for power. Can a young queen hold her throne when Rome has already shown what its soldiers can do?

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