Mashing Up Shakespeare And Brecht In An Airplane Hangar

For Britain’s ongoing World Shakespeare Festival, National Theatre Wales has set itself up in a former RAF base for a production called Coriolan/us – “an ‘infusion’ of Shakespeare’s study of political and military might with Bertolt Brecht’s Coriolan, his unfinished, heavily leftwing attempt to update the play; translated excerpts will be layered with Shakespeare’s script.”