…It would be easy to over-emphasize its radical qualities, though. This is not experimentalism as difficulty: It’s pleasure after pleasure. Director Lileana Blain-Cruz leans into its sense of overabundance by ignoring its birth in Off–Off scrappiness and staging the play as a trove of Fabergé eggs, each space a jewellike interior.
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“In 2026, our theatre-makers look at politics, if obliquely: Shakespeare’s coup-adjacent drama ‘The Tragedy of Coriolanus’ may feel disturbingly relevant
“The play is an absolute barn burner. Weird and ferocious, very funny and brutally tragic, somehow both sardonic and mysterious,
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