CORIOLANUS - the Bard’s blistering drama about a general voted into power by a populace hungry for change, and the unraveling that follows. Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Shakespeare In The Park’s Troilus and Cressida) directs a modern-day version of this riveting epic of democracy and demagoguery.
Caius Martius Coriolanus (Jonathan Cake) is Rome's most legendary warrior (and hottest celebrity of the moment), and is set to run for political office. But his high personal standards and class-consciousness make it impossible for him to play the political game. His unconventional behavior creates riots and confusion in the Capitol, and leads to his banishment.
Outside the city walls he joins forces with his own longtime enemy - to attack Rome itself. There is only one person who may be able to prevent him from destroying the city of his birth - Volumnia (Kate Burton), his mother.
