National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night.

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.

Cast

Tom Hiddleston

Caius Martius Coriolanus

Mark Gatiss

Menenius Agrippa

Deborah Findlay

Volumnia

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Virgilia

Elliot Levey

Junius Brutus

Jacqueline Boatswain

Valeria / Fourth Citizen

Peter de Jersey

Cominius

Helen Schlesinger

Sicinia

Hadley Fraser

Aufidius

Alfred Enoch

Titus Lartius

Mark Stanley

Second Citizen / Volscian Lieutenant

Rochenda Sandall

First Citizen