National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

8.4

Jan 29 2014

3h 35m

Drama

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston

Caius Martius Coriolanus

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

Menenius Agrippa

Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay

Volumnia

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Virgilia

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