In Good Company, is a production composed of six new works by the dancers of the Hofesh Shechter Company: five live contemporary dance pieces and one film. Maybe it’s because I’m not a dancer. Maybe the only way you can enjoy, or even understand what is happening on stage is if you’re a dancer.
“Welcome to Rome ” is how Octavius Caesar frostily receives the long-absent Mark Antony on his return from Egypt, where he has since forsaken his responsibilities as a triumvir of Rome – and as a husband – for the love of Queen Cleopatra and the sensuous and lavish decadence of Egypt. Antony and Cleopatra is a play of two civilisations, indeed two different worlds, and Jonathan Munby’s production serves this conflict well, flitting seamlessly between the austere and definitively masculine world of Rome and the impassioned and restless Egypt that is Queen Cleopatra’s.
