CORIOLAN/US
About the show
August 2012 / In the Vale of Glamorgan
CORIOLAN/US
From SHAKESPEARE and BRECHT
Directed by MIKE PEARSON and MIKE BROOKES
From the team that created our startling version of Aeschylus’s The Persians on the military training ranges of mid-Wales, the story of Caius Martius – Coriolanus – was re-imagined in the era of 24-hour news, of celebrity culture, and of a new global politics.
In association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival, which was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.
Directors Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes, who also created The Persians, reunited to retell Shakespeare’s story of Caius Martius – Coriolanus – in the era of 24-hour news, celebrity culture and a new global politics.
The production took place in Hangar 858, a disused World War II aircraft hangar, at RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Audience members heard the speech and sounds through headphones using silent disco technology, and were free to move around the space. Two large screens in the centre of the space also showed action filmed from within the crowds and from above.