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[THEATER REVIEW] ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
8.10.07
Packer delivers a majestic and seductive Cleopatra
By Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe Staff
LENOX -- Let's just cut to the chase here. Tina Packer is absolutely magnificent as Cleopatra.
Any argument that the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company was arrogantly taking on a role she was too old for must simply fall away before Michael Hammond's powerful, passionate staging of "Antony and Cleopatra" -- and Packer's even more powerful and passionate performance at its center.
No, Packer is not young. But neither is Cleopatra, as Shakespeare's text frequently reminds us -- and, unlike our own youth-obsessed culture, neither the queen nor her creator sees a woman's maturity as an impediment to her seductive power.
When Cleopatra mentions her "salad days," she's not lamenting her lost youth, as wistful moderns might; she's mocking her younger self for being "green in judgment, cold in blood." Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a tastier dish than any starlet, not least because she's well seasoned.
Who better to play her, then, than a woman who herself has lived long and well? And, age aside, Packer displays the infinite variety that the role demands. By turns coquettish and majestic, giddy with love and blind with rage, Cleopatra must persuade us that she is at once superhumanly strong and humanly vulnerable. Part of her charm lies in its elusiveness, in her quicksilver darting from private passion to public power and back again.
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