Episode 7
Starting May 30, VPRO will broadcast a 10-part adaptation, made especially for television, of the six-hour play Roman tragedies by International Theater Amsterdam (ITA). For two weeks, every Sunday through Thursday on NPO2. Only in Dutch.
In this episode:
Antony leads a dissolute life in Egypt. Under pressure, he returns to Rome. In order to strengthen his ties with the powerful Octavius Caesar, he married his sister. Shortly afterwards he hurried back to his Egyptian lover Cleopatra.