The National's latest production of Coriolanus boasts cinematic scenes of combat, a talented and vital lead, and a painfully contemporary plotline that charts a hungry citizenry.
Their single combat scene is masterfully choreographed across the vast Olivier stage. Flashes of light, music, movement fast and slow, the fight is reminiscent of 2002's Troy.
Next to Oyelowo's uncompromising warrior Caius, they stood almost faceless, vaguely repulsive. He, a man of action, and them with no action, only words of blame.
So convincing were their desperate grabs at power and influence, so feeble were they in personhood, I felt I had been afforded special access to a real-time government.
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