A Place Calling Itself Rome

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T0210025890 (KH08) Rehearsed reading. Running time approximately 2 hours (including interval)Company Primavera. Director Tom Littler. Performer Christopher Ravenscroft (Menenius). Performer Susan Penhaligon (Volumnia). Performer Anthony Howell (Tullus Aufidius).
12 Oct 08	The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L1776471652
T01841190438 (N101) Company N1 Theatre Comapany (in association with the Courtyard Theatre). Director Sophia Nasreen. Design Fintown Fury. Lighting Matt Prentice.
3 Apr 01 to 8 Apr 01	Courtyard Theatre, Inner London :: V184 listing details L965310365

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Play :: Osborne’s play, which was written in 1972, rewrites Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in a modern political and military setting. The Roman intrigues and bloodshed of the original are transposed to a contemporary world in which the old guard patricians continue to manoeuvre against the new force of the ‘people’s politicians’ and the ever-present mob. Osborne also makes more explicit the homoerotic subtext of the Coriolanus - Aufidius relationship.

Author

John Osborne