A staccato drum beat. A stone, gray set. The nobles stand a body-length above the people. The people are hungry and shouting for corn. The nobility looks on in disdain. Coriolanus’ ancient Rome is ...
A drumbeat pounds as combat boots march quickly through the room to stand on the bottom two steps, one person on each. Soon, the shouts begin. The Roman commoners are hungry. They demand corn. And ...
Motoring on through the text at speed, this Coriolanus is mostly exasperated, progressing to all-out fury once his exasperation peaks. As an exemplar of the virtuous man of arms, he is possibly ...
A scorching Tom Hiddleston leads director Josie Rourke's tense, revelatory staging of this little-loved Shakespeare tragedy at London's Donmar Warehouse. The 250-seat Donmar is an intriguingly ...
The Roman soldier obeys curt commands. When a disembodied voice raps out, “Crouch!,” the soldier crouches. When the voice barks, “Attack!,” the soldier lunges with a sword. “Block!” “Jump!” He follows ...
With a voice that rumbles and quakes like an avalanche, Patrick Page unleashes his catalytic energy on “Coriolanus,” the Shakespearean tragedy that builds ever so incrementally to a roaring finish on ...