Enter Coriolanus (Mr. Page), a paragon of the military virtues who more or less single-handedly defeats the enemy.
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
Is there room in a democracy for an aristocrat like Coriolanus who refuses to play the popularity game?
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
Describing Hiddleston "one of our leading young classical actors", Rourke said she envisaged Coriolanus would be a "contemporary" production.
He understands that "Coriolanus" is not about any particular politician, or any particular war: Its real subject is pride.
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus.
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Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, will also receive a gala screening at the event.
Tom Hiddleston is to play the title role in Coriolanus as part of the autumn season at the Donmar Warehouse.
With a career that includes Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo and Coriolanus, Logan is one the most sought-after screenwriters in Hollywood.
Politics is a dirty business, but Coriolanus betrays everyone he's ever known to uphold his own warped sense of honor.
By any standards, "Coriolanus" is an ambitious undertaking, a modern-day interpretation of one of Shakespeare's meatiest but less frequently performed plays.
The Help was just one of seven movies Chastain appeared in last year including Tree of Life, Coriolanus and Take Shelter.
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After playing Malvolio, Briers took on the acting challenge of King Lear, followed by the title role in Uncle Vanya and Menenius in Coriolanus.
The emphasis on modern campaign politics also proves illuminating, with the rabble-rousing tribunes conspiring against Coriolanus in the Senate amid cigarette smoke and division bells.
While he easily carries the Senate, tradition demands that Caius, now known as "Coriolanus, " must also seek the assent of the citizenry in the public market.
Even the smaller roles are for the most part impressively filled: Lise Bruneau, for instance, catches the eye and ear as Valeria, a friend of Coriolanus's family.
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
Meanwhile, Chastain was seen this year in Ralph Fiennes' film of Coriolanus and was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a flighty wife in The Help.
Set in "Some place calling itself Rome, " but filmed, very tellingly, in battle-scarred Serbia and Montenegro, "Coriolanus" imagines a modern state rocked by food shortages and border disputes.
We know he can play villains, but even if he's essentially a fascist, there is something noble about Coriolanus, and tragic, too, in his inability to bend or compromise.
Banished after a clash with the people's tribunes and a fickle mob, Coriolanus defects to the enemy camp, to his guerrilla rival, Aufidius, whom he admires, and prepares to sack Rome.
Why has "Coriolanus" never been popular?
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
Indifferent to the praise of "the common people, " he will not "flatter them for their love, " and his adamant refusal to do so makes him vulnerable to the scheming of a pair of jealous pols (Philip Goodwin and Derrick Lee Weeden) who seek to bring Coriolanus to his knees by turning the fickle mob against him.
WSJ: 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout
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