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Theatre for a New Audience
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Time: Just After Now. Setting: Rome and Antium
Who should lead in a land where the political rules are rapidly shifting and reordering, class revolt is raging, and basic food has become unaffordable? Is there a place for Coriolanus, a noble war hero and uncompromising aristocrat, both admirable and detestable, who refuses to hide his contempt for the newly empowered plebeian citizens?
In 2020, during the pandemic, Ash K. Tata created a streaming version of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest. Now, Tata stages The Tragedy of Coriolanus incorporating live performance and a media-saturated landscape where the alienation of gaming violence and screen combat are contrasted with the intensity of IRL battles, and the relationship of Volumnia and her son Coriolanus gives human shape to the political drama.
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Review: The Tragedy of Coriolanus at Theatre for a New Audience
4 / 10
Tata’s production takes three full hours to get through the play, searching for a compelling hook somewhere in the modern setting, but consistently falling short. Belcher’s Coriolanus is precisely as bombastic and aloof as Shakespeare wrote him, which only makes the few glimpses of his humanity seem abrupt and jarring. O’Connell’s sleazy and conniving Menenius is a fun bright spot and the always excellent Ruff shows, with little doubt, why Volumnia is so adept at overpowering the emotions and intellect of her son. But, on the whole, the performances highlight rather than assuage the static nature of these characters.
Review: Coriolanus as a Spectator Sport—Bring On the Jumbotron
5 / 10
Blame my ever-diminishing attention span, but I quickly lost interest in Tata’s techno-extratextual commentary on Coriolanus, now running at Theater for a New Audience’s home, the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. I get it, to an extent: it’s impossible to divorce our consumption of politics and civil unrest from the technology we’ve plugged into our brains. But with performances as strong as the ones we get from this cast, I would have welcomed the chance to unplug.
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Review Roundup: Theatre for a New Audience's THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS
by Gillian Blum - February 14, 2026
by Gillian Blum - February 14, 2026
What did critics think of Theatre for a New Audience's THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS, directed by Ash K. Tata, which is running now at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center?
Theatre For a New Audience Reveals 2025/26 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2025
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2025
Theatre For a New Audience has announced its upcoming season which will kick off this September with performances of The Wild Duck. The remaining shows in the season include The Tragedy of Coriolanus and Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet.
Coriolanus History
Other Productions of Coriolanus
| 1938 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 2017 | West End |
RSC West End Revival West End |
| 2019 | New York |
2019 Shakespeare in the Park Production New York |
| 2024 | West End |
West End |
| 2026 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
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