Coriolanus
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Cast
Frank Adu
Junius Brutus
Gloria Foster
Volumnia
CCH Pounder
Valeria
Earle Hyman
Cominius
Roscoe Orman
Adrian
Michele Shay
Virgilia
Maurice Woods
Agrippa
Keith David
Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Castulo Guerra
Senator / Nicanor / Officer
Denzel Washington
Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Dennis Tate
Servingman / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Peter Francis James
Volscian Citizen / Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Count Stovall
Volscian Citizen / Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
More Like This
Mr. Turner
Firebrand
All Eyez on Me
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
The Last Rifleman
Dalíland
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Field of Lost Shoes
The Hill
Girl in the Box
Mexicali
Mary
Palestine 36
The Secrets We Keep
Only the Strong
El Chicano
Richard Jewell
The Last of the Mohicans
Guilty by Suspicion
Convict