Cast (in order of speaking) Creative Team First Citizen Rochenda Sandall Director Josie Rourke Second Citizen Mark Stanley Designer Lucy Osborne Third Citizen Dwane Walcott Lighting Designer Mark Henderson Menenius Mark Gatiss Sound Designer Emma Laxton Caius Martius Coriolanus Video Designer Andrzej Goulding Tom Hiddleston Composer Michael Bruce Cominius Peter De Jersey Movement Jonathan Watkins Titus Lartius Alfred Enoch Fight Director Richard Ryan Brutus Elliot Levey Sicinia Helen Schlesinger Broadcast Team Aufidius Hadley Fraser Volumnia Deborah Findlay Director For Screen Tim van Someren Virgilia Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Assistant Director Laura Vallis Valeria, Fourth Citizen Technical Producer Jacqueline Boatswain Christopher C.Bretnall Young Martius Joe Willis Lighting Director Bernie Davis Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher
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When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too.
As 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.
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