All for Love

Or the World Well Lost

by John Dryden (1631-1700)

Could you give up everything for love? Ignore your responsibilities, fail to act in your own self-interest? Desert your wife and children, provoke a civil war involving half the world? When would you decide it wasn't worth it?

Dryden's version of the Antony and Cleopatra story has been described as 'the greatest classical tragedy in English'. Written as a deliberate challenge to Shakespeare, using the unities of space, time and action to focus on the intensity of the central relationship, it is a brilliant study of mutual obsession in circumstances where it is disastrous.

Set in the exotic East the play explores the clash between Roman and Egyptian, court eunuchs and stoic generals and subversively suggests that wife and friends are less important than one great love.



Battersea Arts Centre: Studio 2

5 - 24 September 2000

Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm

Sunday at 6pm

Tickets: £9.75 (concessions £6.50)

Tuesday night: Pay what you can

Box office: 020 7223 2223



Praise for Artifice's production of T.S. Eliot's, The confidential clerk:

'excellent production... smartly paced and beautifully played' - The Independent

'thoughtful, satisfying production... the assured cast effortlessly control the variations in tone while tearing through the skin of each character' - Time Out

'superbly directed... and brilliantly cast' - Greenwich Magazine

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