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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. 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. (Verleiher-Text)
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It’s not so easy to stage “Coriolanus" well. On the one hand you have to struggle with the fact that this isn’t one of Shakespeare’s best works. Not that it’s bad, but everything the author says here he has said in his other plays and often better and here it’s rather too full on. Another drawback is the “classical pomp". Here they handled it unusually through absolute minimalism which they apply very ingeniously (apart from the jeans), but in my eyes it doesn’t really suit this (especially not the jeans). Because of that, this is a bit like Cimrman’s “Hamlet" without Hamlet. Otherwise no complaints; with his great performance, you forget that he is too young to play Caius Martius (although it’s striking that he plays him identically to how he played Hal in The Hollow Crown) and the others (with the occasional exception in the shape of unimportant supporting roles, isn’t that right, Sørensen?) are never far behind; particularly Gatiss and Findlay steal the show.
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