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Coriolanus @ The Barbican Centre

Sope Dirisu as Caius Martius Angus Jackson bookends the Royal Shakespeare Company ’s Rome season, his traditional dress Julius Caesar having opened it he now caps it off with a modern set Coriolanus . If the latter is the least well known of Shakespeare’s Roman plays its central theme – dissent of the masses against an ignorant ruling class – is surely as pertinent as any of the Bard’s work in the current climate.