In St. Louis Shakespeare's rendition of Coriolanus offers modern-day metaphors, writer Paul Friswold speaks to the eerie relevance of this production to our sociopolitical tensions (rf. Arab Spring). In a similar vein, Ralph Fiennes produces, directs and stars in a take of the Roman general, which is fast-forwarded to the present. Financially, to date, it is off its $7.7 million budget with just a $1.1 million in the box office.
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| Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, as Coriolanus and Virgilia |
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| Gerard Butler, as Aufidius |
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