mike on Nostr: #coriolanus A performance work created as a public space, at the scale of public ...
#coriolanus
A performance work created as a public space, at the scale of public space… the hangar floor was 90m x 50m… at the time I described the place as ‘a landscape with a lid’…
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A performance work created as a public space, at the scale of public space… the hangar floor was 90m x 50m… at the time I described the place as ‘a landscape with a lid’…
#archive #olympics #performance #theatre #shakespeare #artist #art #artstr
quoting note1cta…jsxcFrom the archive: #coriolanus
Three Olympics ago, twelve years ago this week, for the Cultural Olympiad of the London 2012 games…
We realised our very large-scale performance work ‘Coriolan/us’ - a reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ for and as public space, performed in a vast decommissioned WW2 aircraft hangar in South Wales, jointly produced by National Theatre Wales and the Royal Shakespeare Company…
A work that, unfortunately, still feels current…
‘What is the city but the people?’
- Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
#archive #olympics #performance #theatre #shakespeare #artist #art #artstr
