Coriolanus

Alternative title: The Shakespeare Plays
Synopsis: Television production of the play with stylised battle scenes using music and dance. Alan Howard is Coriolanus.
Series: BBC Television Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 18 Apr 1983
Transmission details: 21 Apr 1984 at 20:40 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 145 mins
Availability: out of distribution

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

Producer

Writer

Music

Costume

Art Direction

Contributor

Cast

Alan Howard	Caius Martius Coriolanus
Irene Worth	Volumnia
Mike Gwilym	Tullus Aufidius
Joss Ackland	Menenius Agrippa
Patrick Godfrey	Cominius
Anthony Pedley	Junius Brutus
Brian Poyser	First Volscian Senator (Senator (Volscian))
Damien Franklin	Young Martius
Heather Canning	Valeria
Jay Ruparelia	Soldier
Joanna McCallum	Virgilia
John Burgess	Sicinius Velutus
John Rowe	First Roman Senator (Senator (Rome))
Jon Rumney	Fourth Citizen (Citizen)
Leon Lissek	Third Citizen (Citizen)
Nicholas Amer	Aediles
Patsy Smart	Gentlewoman
Paul Jesson	First Citizen (Citizen)
Peter Sands	Titus Lartius
Ray Roberts	Second Citizen (Citizen)
Reginald Jessup	Second Volscian Senator (Senator (Volscian))
Russell Kilmister	Fifth Citizen (Citizen)
Stephen Finlay	Citizen of Antium (Citizen)
Teddy Kempner	Nicanor
Valentine Dyall	Adrian

Notes: The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
History: This production is part of the sixth series (producer Shaun Sutton). The recording took 9 days.
Textual information: Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers.
Reviews: Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

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