Coriolanus

Synopsis: Video recording of the Chiten company’s staging of Coriolanus for the Globe to Globe season. Directed by Motoi Miura with Dai Ishida in the title role. All other roles were performed by a chorus of four. Performed in Japanese.
Language: Japanese
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: May 2012

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Theatre: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Theatre company: Chiten
Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: Coriolanus
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Complete Works; Globe to Globe season; World Shakespeare Festival 2012

History: The production was staged 21 & 22 May 2012
Reviews: Chris Michael (The Guardian, 25 May 2012). Michael writes "... If so, it’s a damning indictment of political arrogance that comes couched as absurdist theatre. The battles, such as they are, become stylised tableaux that, frankly, could be anything: lovers courting, geese fighting, a bunch of fat snowmen melting in the spring. There is no psychological realism here, and little trust in the essential drama: Dai Ishida as Coriolanus swings between angry and silly so often that it’s hard to care what happens to him, though he gives a remarkably commanding performance considering he spends most of the first half with a basket over his head".

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