Antony and Cleopatra with Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall visits a recently completed copy of the Blackfriars, a space where was thought that Shakespeare and his company performed. Cattrall meets with the Globe's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole for a tour.

Kim Cattrall has played Cleopatra twice. Now she explores the real character of the great Queen of Egypt, and travels to Rome, Marc Antony’s city, in her quest to find out more about the historical Cleopatra. She also meets with her director, Dame Janet Suzman, who herself made an iconic Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973, and with Harriet Walter and Vanessa Redgrave.

The mixed-up story of the young lovers Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena in Shakespeares’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be quite confusing. This two-minute animation sums up what you need to know.