ODEON Magazine May 2015 | Page 5

GLOBE ON SCREEN: ANTONY & CLEOPATRA Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of power conflicts is comin’ at cha… Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two. Virtue and vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breath-taking beauty and magnificence. The Globe’s 2014 envisioning of this iconic play encapsulates these themes whilst deftly threading a sense of comedy throughout. Did You Know? Watch the trailer Palaeogeneticists have crushed hopes for a real life Jurassic Park by deducing it would be impossible to bring dinosaurs back. DNA has a half life of just 521 years before it starts to decay irreparably, so the remains of the big beasts sit way too far back in history. Jurassic World TBC RELEASED 12 June DIRECTOR Colin Trevorrow STARRING Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio odeon.co.uk 5