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Coriolan/us " review by Michael Billington

Hangar 858, RAF St Athan, Vale of GlamorganTwo summers ago, National Theatre Wales stunned us with a version of Aeschylus's The Persians set in a military training camp. Now the same directors, Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes, have taken over a vast aircraft hangar, once used by the RAF, for a spectacularly immersive show that conflates Shakespeare's Roman tragedy and Brecht's adaptation of it. We absorb the text throu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PM on August 10, 2012

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