We saw "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Globe Theatre on Wednesday. The modern Globe Theatre is a pretty accurate replication of the original (straw roof and all), just updated slightly to comply with modern safety standards.
It took me a while to get into it -- I wasn't too familiar with the story, and hadn't been to a Shakespeare play for years -- but it was entertaining in the end. Caesar was particularly good (and had an accent that was easy to understand). The production was staged in Jacobean style -- with period clothing and music -- which made it feel authentic. It felt like we were watching the same production that people watched almost exactly 400 years ago when Antony and Cleopatra was written.
My only complaint was that the weather was really muggy -- which was made much worse by having spent all day in a 90-degree office (our air conditioning has been broken, so I've been working in 85-92 degree temperatures in my office for the last two weeks).
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