{"id":10452,"date":"2010-10-13T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10452"},"modified":"2010-10-13T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T23:46:15","slug":"mulgrew-to-play-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/mulgrew-to-play-cleopatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulgrew To Play Cleopatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kate Mulgrew<\/strong>, <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em>&#8216;s Captain Janeway, is taking on another leading role, that of Cleopatra in <em>Shakespeare\u2019s Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The role of Cleopatra is one which Mulgrew has wanted to take on for some time. &#8220;It has been something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for many years,&#8221; she said during a break in rehearsals for the play. &#8220;But everything has to line up when you do a play like this; the stars have to line up and my star was [Artistic Director of Hartford Stage] <strong>Michael Wilson<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/MulgrewCaA.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10453\" title=\"MulgrewCaA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/MulgrewCaA.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doing the play has been a dream of mine,&#8221; Mulgrew continued, &#8220;but I knew it would be a herculean task, so we tossed around a few ideas. When he suggested (director) <strong>Tina<\/strong> (<strong>Landau<\/strong>), I thought that was a genius idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Shakespeare&#8217;s Antony and Cleopatra <\/em>will be the first show performed since the renovations at Hartford Stage were completed. The play will run from Oct 8th through November 7th. &#8220;Hartford is lucky to have such an active and passionate (theater) board that found the money to mount this show and open a new space, but wait till you see it,&#8221; said Mulgrew.<\/p>\n<p>Mulgrew has been preparing for her role by researching the real Cleopatra. &#8220;When I play a real person, I immerse myself in research up to the moment of rehearsal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Then you must honor the text. The rest of it has to go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Douglas Thompson<\/strong> will be playing Mark Antony.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for <em>Shakespeare&#8217;s Antony and Cleopatra<\/em> can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordstage.org\/shows\/antony-cleopatra\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Mulgrew, Star Trek: Voyager&#8216;s Captain Janeway, is taking on another leading role, that of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2406],"tags":[2403,3415],"class_list":["post-10452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-voy","tag-mulgrew","tag-shakespeares-antony-and-cleopatra"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-voy\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10454,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}