Stratford Festival Shakespears Coriolanus 2017

Stratford Festival on Film Shakespeare's Coriolanus presented live 2017

Recently seen as a fundraiser on streaming media May, 2020



Runtime  2 hrs 29 mins



IMDb tt9151404/                                                           In Shakespeares English

                                                                               presented in two parts at interval

                                                                                          with English subtitles

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Summary from IMDb



Roman War hero Martius, alias Coriolanus, is named consul, Rome's highest public office. But the warrior is no politician - and he faces unaccustomed enemies who fan the flames of populism against him, with catastrophic results.



Cast and Creatives



designed directed for the stage by Robert Lepage

directed for the screen by Barry Avrich



Cast



Tullus General of Volscians                                   Graham Abbey

Comminus General opposing the Volscians    Michael Blake

Virgila (wife of Coriolanus)                                   Alexis Gordon

Menenius (friend to Coriolanus)                         Tom McManus

Volumnia (mother to Coriolanus)                        Lucy Peacock

Martius (to be Caius Martius Coriolanus)         Andre' Sills



complete cast list in the credit roll



Some highlighted notes from the orginal production:



  "Staged at the Stratford Festival and named on many 2018 year-end critics “best of” lists, the Stratford Festival’s “riveting” and “exhilarating” (The New York Times) production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, has been called “the show of the decade… a landmark production for the Stratford Festival. Maybe for William Shakespeare, too” (The Globe and Mail), and “the greatest contemporary staging of this play that I have ever seen” (Chicago Tribune).



  "The production is directed by genre-defying theatre artist Robert Lepage and stars André Sills, “a magnetic and imposing actor” (The New York Times), with a stellar cast delivering “performances that send shivers down the spine” (The Globe and Mail). Lepage takes the story of the rise and fall of a legendary general who must face off against the angry Roman mob and infuses it with the energy of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring.



My notes



  Robert Lepage is also featured in the documentary "Wagner's Dream" which I have in this fileshare group.  It documents the monumental and innovative production Lepage  made for the Met Opera Ring Cycle.



   I saw the Stratford Festival Coriolanus on the free presentation streamed during May 2020.  Many of the plays released as live on film to movie theatres are now being brought as fund raisers to the public during the world pandemic.  Donate what you can.  But these fileshares are for the wider world audience who either do not have access to the likes of Youtube  or, indeed, find that viewing the play may have dropout interruptions. Please see the full list of plays I have recoded for more.  And those with capture capability I appreciate your joining the effort.



  Also a note of thanks to the coder who made the add-on to my browser to be able to download the subtitles in the correct format.  It was a welcome discovery.



Notes written  May 13th,  2020