Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Tickets

An Avant Bard and Longacre Lea coproduction, this adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is directed by Longacre Lea Managing Director Séamus Miller and is inspired by video games, virtual reality, and our cultural embrace of ultra-violence. The production reframes our understanding of the protagonist through a trauma-informed lens. The audience will be directly involved and implicated in the conditioning of a man who is bred into, even celebrated for, antisocial brutality—and then punished for his learned inability to ‘play nice.’ This co-production promises to bring a fresh perspective to the classic play, blending Avant Bard's innovative approach to the classics with Longacre Lea's intellectually adventurous artistic vision. Local DC area favorites, James Finley, Kimberly Gilbert and Eric Hissom are sure to enthrall as Coriolanus, Volumnia and Menenius respectively.