14:00, Mon 7th – Tue 8th December 2026 at Hiberniaschool, Antwerp (BEL)
15:30, Wed 9th December 2026 at De Koelisse, Leuven (BEL)
19:00, Wed 9th December 2026 at De Koelisse, Leuven (BEL)
13:00, Fri 11th December 2026 at École Jeannine Manuel, Lille (FRA)
19:00, Tue 15th December 2026 at Gymnasium Lerbermatt, Bern (CHE)
14:00, Wed 16th December 2026 at Gymnasium Lerbermatt, Bern (CHE)
19:45, Tue 19th – Sat 23rd January 2027 at ADC Theatre
13:45, Thu 21st January 2027 at ADC Theatre
14:30, Sat 23rd January 2027 at ADC Theatre
Christmas Vacation to Lent Week 0

“He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I’ll unpeople Egypt”

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, written in 1607, chronicles one of history’s most passionate and reckless love stories. At face value, this dramatic tragedy traces the dichotomy between the triumvirate-ruled Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt. Yet, the parallels between Egypt and Rome are beyond geography and extend into the tensions between: love and sacrifice; hedonism and duty; affair and matrimony; myth and man.

The ETG 2026 production highlights the political aspects of the play by setting our production at the teetering edge of the Great Depression. Cleopatra’s kingdom becomes a self-indulgent moonshine-ridden dinner party that deals long card games and dances into the dusk of the Jazz Age. Rome is the domain of terse board meetings, senate hearings and frigid negotiations by those seeking to withhold financial and political systems from utter collapse. With a musical landscape that calls back to the 1920s and 1930s, we ask the question often left amiss in considerations of the play: How much can we defend in the name of love?

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