Carved out the time today to watch the National Theatre's production of Coriolanus, the one with Tom Hiddleston in the title role, streaming on Youtube. Glad I did. Mr Hiddleston is excellent, as is every member of the ensemble. Excellent speaking of the verse - which is the only way you're ever going to get this most rhetorical of the tragedies (which is saying something) to work. This production worked at every level, gripping me to the extraordinarily bloody conclusion.
I know it's the general opinion that Coriolanus is easy to respect but hard to like as a play, but I love it and always have. (Bit worried about what that says about my character.)
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