Shakespeare's most brutal political thriller, staged with the fury of a riot and the precision of a knife fight.
Staged at the Stratford Festival and named on many 2018 year-end critics “best of” lists, the Stratford Festival’s “riveting” and “exhilarating” (The New York Times) production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, has been called “the show of the decade… a landmark production for the Stratford Festival. Maybe for William Shakespeare, too” (The Globe and Mail), and “the greatest contemporary staging of this play that I have ever seen” (Chicago Tribune).
Acting
Andre Sills delivers a volcanic, career-defining Coriolanus.
Direction
Lepage turns the theatre into a war zone of bodies and light.
Production
Stratford's brutalist staging makes Rome feel terrifyingly now.
Director
Robert Lepage
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lepage cast Black actor Andre Sills in a role traditionally white-washed, making Coriolanus's rage against 'the people' land with explosive contemporary resonance about race, class, and who gets to claim 'virtue.'
This production notoriously made audiences uncomfortable by having the crowd scenes feel genuinely threatening—Stratford's typically polite patrons found themselves implicated as the fickle Roman mob.
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