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Are you counting down the days until the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (featuring Tom Hiddleston and Mark Gatiss) begins? Well, if you weren’t before you better start; rehearsals have begun!
Artistic Director, Josie Rourke, has released a series of tweets documenting the beginning of fight rehearsals for the show – opening December 6 – with Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus and Hadley Fraser as Tullus Aufidius.
Fight rehearsals begin for Coriolanus. Time to tell twitter who is playing Aufidius @donmarwarehouse pic.twitter.com/G961BzYESK
— Josie Rourke (@josierourke) September 30, 2013
Coriolanus is a tragedy which was written towards the end of Shakespeare’s writing career, said to be dated around the early 1600s; his second last tragedy.
The play is set in Rome two centuries before Julius Ceasar would have taken place. What is believed to be based on the Life of Caius Martius Coriolanius, Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is a semi-historical play about the struggling and threatened life of the Romans after the fall of the last King of Rome, and its defender – Coriolanus.
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