As someone who went to see this performance last week, I just want to add that it is everything she says it is, AND MORE
On Sunday, my roommates and I headed down to the Michigan Theater to see the National Theatre Live broadcast of Coriolanus.
I was a muddle of expectations: on one hand, I expected good things because it had Tom Hiddleston and Mark Gatiss at the very least. On the other hand, the bits of the play I’d read (or read about) suggested that it involved a lot of politics (bleah) and Coriolanus being a jerk (which…could be interesting, but might just be annoying). On the other other hand, I’d heard good things from Em about it.
So I went, braced for a bit of gore, some speeches I couldn’t hear very well, the possibility of boredom.
And?
I was blown away.
Why? The reasons include, but are not limited to, the following:
Set. We watched it on-screen, of course, but it still had that without-a-net feeling. The set was…
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