Coriolanus

Summary: 1965 BBC presentation of the National Youth Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (first staged at the Queen’s Theatre in the summer of 1964), recorded for television at the Chichester Festival Theatre in April 1965. The production was updated to 1914.
Theatre play: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The last of Shakespeare’s great political tragedies, chronicling the life of the mighty warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus. It covers many issues including pride of coming before a fall. The ambitious mother of of the hero plays a large part in his initial successes. Coriolanus supports the old patrician ways and is totally out of tune with the needs of the ordinary people. Aufidius, jealous of Coriolanus’s popularity with the Volscians, denounces him as a traitor, and the Volscians then kill the Roman. He then regrets his action and praises Coriolanus a real hero.' Source: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-coriolanus.htm.
Production history: Believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.
Date of transmission: Sunday 23 May 1965
Time: 7.25-8.50pm
Channel: BBC2
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: National Youth Theatre, London

Producer

Michael Croft

Television Production by

Bernard Hepton

Television Production by

Roger Jenkins

Playwright

William Shakespeare

Set Designer

Christopher Lawrence

Television Design Associate

Barry Newbery

Make-up Supervisor

Ann Henderson

Cast

Timothy Block	Cominius
Ian Clegg	Roman Senator
Robert Davies	Tulle Aufidius
Mary Grimes	Volumnia
Elisabeth Holmes	Valeria
Nigel Jeffcoat	Roman Senator
Timothy Meats	Titus Lartius
John Nightingale	Caius Marcius, later Coriolanus
Mark Powell	Young Marcius
Leslie Roberts	Brutus
Derek Seaton	Sicinius
David Stockton	Menenius
Charlotte Womersley	Virgilia

Title: Coriolanus (BBC, 1965)
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