STRATFORD — The Stratford Library, 2203 Main Street, announces that the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey will return to Stratford on Saturday, August 3 at 2 p.m. for its all-female production of “Coriolanus.”
Performed outside in the library’s scenic back courtyard, the fully-staged and costumed performance is free and open to the public.
Shakespeare’s exploration of military honor, corrupt politics and complicated family relations in “Coriolanus” are shifted from a traditional Roman setting to an ancient, fantasy world with an all-female cast.
Based on the semi-legendary, semi-historical figure of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, this is not yet the Rome of Julius Caesar but tells a hardbitten tale of centuries before the classical republic and eventual empire. It is a country still working itself out.
Director Noelle Fair showcases an Amazonian world taking many influences from both historical (women warrior society of ancient Eastern Europe) and fantasy sources (Wonder Woman, Game of Thrones), underscoring it with it with a percussive and female driven soundtrack.
Written in 1606, “Coriolanus” marks the end of Shakespeare’s high tragedies of “Macbeth” and “King Lear” before moving on to more hopeful redemption stories of “Pericles” and “The Winter’s Tale.”
Hudson Shakespeare Company was begun in 1992 and for 28 seasons has toured free Shakespeare to parks and libraries in northern New Jersey presenting the Bard’s well known and lesser done titles in a variety of settings and periods.
The Hudson Shakespeare Company’s presentation of “Coriolanus” will be held beginning at 2 pm in the Stratford Library’s back courtyard located in the rear of...
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