Coriolanus

Synopsis: Live sound recording of Terry Hand’s 1977 production of Coriolanus for the RSC with Alan Howard in the title role.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 20 Jul 1978

Director

Terry Hands

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Ian Kellam

Cast

Alan Howard	Caius Martius Coriolanus
Maxine Audley	Volumnia
Julian Glover	Tullus Aufidius
Graham Crowden	Menenius Agrippa
Jeffery Dench	Cominius
Adam Rhodes	Young Martius
Arthur Whybrow	3rd Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Barrie Rutter	1st Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Bernard Brown	Titus Lartius
Bille Brown	2nd Volscian citizen (Citizen (Volscian))
Charles Dance	Volscian lieutenant (Lieutenant)
David Hobbs	1st Volscian citizen (Citizen (Volscian))
David Shaw-Parker	5th Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Desmond Stokes	1st Volscian senator (Senator (Volscian))
Iain Mitchell	7th Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Jamie Glover	Young Martius
Jill Baker	Virgilia
John Burgess	Sicinius Velutus
Matthew Guinness	6th Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Michael Bertenshaw	3rd Volscian citizen (Citizen (Volscian))
Oliver Ford Davies	Junius Brutus
Pat Connell	Aediles
Paul Imbusch	Nicanor
Philip Dunbar	2nd Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Richard Derrington	4th Roman citizen (Citizen (Rome))
Stephen Jenn	2nd Volscian senator (Senator (Volscian))
Yvonne Coulette	Valeria

Reviews: `Terry Hands’ production of Coriolanus at Stratford is staggeringly good. Played on a dark, cavernous stage over which two huge ribbed doors swing on hinges, it combines the imagistic power of Continental theatre with a very English respect for actors’. Michael Billington. The Guardian (21 October 1977).

`Doubting beautifully, never nobler than when uncertain, Howard proves Shakespeare the most modern playwright we have’. Alix Coleman.
TV Times, 28.1.1978.

`The production by Terry Hands is as untendentious as it is magnificent; this is the strongest, clearest and most consistent Shakespeare I have seen anywhere for years’. Bernard Levin. Sunday Times, 23.10.77

SHAKESPEARE