Tuesday 3 July 2012

a burnish'd throne



A newly devised performance of Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra (Act 2 Sc.2) adapted and directed by Ed Viney, was performed outside the newly completed Jubilee Gardens WC Pavilion by Mark Power Architects, on Sunday 1st July 2012.











The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold,
Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion—cloth of gold, of tissue—
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature.