9 min

Beautiful, Beautiful Cleopatra Open-Door Playhouse

    • Performing Arts

Two priestesses are debating the beauty of Cleopatra outside her chambers. The discussion ends up being about far more than beauty as the older priestess tries to convince the younger one that sometimes beauty should stay in the eye of the beholder.This is a comedy about power that takes a few sharp jabs at history.Yuniy Zhu directs Goreti da Silva as Akila and Monique Gonsalves as Anat.Kevin Broccoli is the playwright. His most recent play, The Jelly Bean, was a selection at the Pittsburgh N...

Two priestesses are debating the beauty of Cleopatra outside her chambers. The discussion ends up being about far more than beauty as the older priestess tries to convince the younger one that sometimes beauty should stay in the eye of the beholder.This is a comedy about power that takes a few sharp jabs at history.Yuniy Zhu directs Goreti da Silva as Akila and Monique Gonsalves as Anat.Kevin Broccoli is the playwright. His most recent play, The Jelly Bean, was a selection at the Pittsburgh N...

9 min