Coriolanus

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994 production of Coriolanus. Directed by David Thacker with Toby Stephens as Coriolanus and Caroline Blakiston as Volumnia.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 25 May 1994
Duration: 180 mins

Notes: A second recording was made at the Barbican 22 August 1995.
General: Citizens are played by Linford Brown, Nigel Clauzel, Anthony Cochrane, Julia Crane, Howard Crossley, Daniel Evans, Adrian Irvine, Colin Jarrett, Vivian Munn and Fiona Tong.

The RSC advertising poster, to encourage younger people to fill the seats at the Barbican transfer, carried the caption ‘a natural born killer too’ referring to Oliver Stone’s feature film NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994).
History: Press night 24 May 1994
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm. The set design includes Eugene Delacroix’s painting ‘Liberte Guidant Le Peuple’ half finished as a large backdrop.
Reviews: Love, Karen G. ‘How Does It Mean? The Use of Artifact as Metaphor in Fran Thompson’s Set Design for David Thacker’s Production of Coriolanus, the Swan Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, July 12, 1994’. Shakespeare Newsletter 44 (1994): 67, 76.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Toby Stephens	Caius Martius Coriolanus
Caroline Blakiston	Volumnia
Barry Lynch	Tullus Aufidius
Philip Voss	Menenius Agrippa
David Killick	Cominius
Alan Faulkner	Senator (2) (Senator)
Alan Faulkner	Volscian Senator (2) (Senator (Volscian))
Anthony Naylor	Titus Lartius
Colin George	Senator (1) (Senator)
Colin Jarrett	Watch (2) (Watchman)
Daniel Evans	Servant
David Hounslow	Servant
David Hounslow	Watch (1) (Watchman)
Ewan Hooper	Junius Brutus
Griffith Jones	Volscian Senator (1) (Senator (Volscian))
Howard Crossley	Servant
Ivor Hill	Young Martius
Jeremy Pyke	Young Martius
Julia Crane	Servant
Kenn Sabberton	Adrian
Linal Haft	Sicinius Velutus
Monica Dolan	Virgilia
Tanya Moodie	Valeria
Thusita Jayasundera	Gentlewoman

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