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#coriolanus

The original print programme, and all the production details it contains, currently archived and available here [pdf] :

https://cdn.satellite.earth/5483d5d702403b97103e6694ee0e0463396a7e0001d40c02223d89f43e6b1e7d.pdf

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From 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

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