coriolanus Archives

The U.K.’s National Theatre Finally Launches Streaming Service

National Theatre at Home Launches Premium Streaming Service

They included lavish new productions of Frankenstein directed by Danny Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, Treasure Island with Arthur Darvill, One Man, Two Guvnors with James Corden, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie, Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston and Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okenedo They were[...]
Comparing the Hunger Games prequel book and Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Comparing The Hunger Games Prequel Book and Shakespeare's Coriolanus

I love the universe of The Hunger Games, and the subsequent prequel book, A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes almost as much as I love the classic Shakespeare tragedy Coriolanus Warning: there will be spoilers for both the Hunger Games series (prequel book included) and the play Coriolanus. Those of you familiar with the prequel and[...]
A scene from Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston (Image: National Theatre).

Tom Hiddleston, National Theatre's Coriolanus Proves Relevant As Ever

This week's presentation is one of my personal favorites: Coriolanus Now, perhaps you slept through sophomore literature class, but many people haven't heard of it, despite it being one of Shakespeare's tragedies of enduring relevancy Allow me to introduce you to one of the Bard's most human tragedies This staging, filmed during the Donmar Warehouse's[...]