Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Coriolanus?

I've loved this play ever since I was a revolting Roman citizen in a production, directed by Anthony Page, in my second term at Oxford. Soon after I saw Olivier play Coriolanus in a Stratford production directed by Peter Hall. No one who saw Olivier will ever forget the way he caught the character's emotional immaturity, dark irony and physical danger: the final image of him dangling from a 12ft high platform is branded on my memory.

Since then I've seen countless productions which reflect the play's political and psychological complexity. For Brecht's Berliner Ensemble, who brought the play to London in the mid-1960s, it became an attack on the idea of the indispensable hero. British productions tend to focus more on the intricacies of the hero's relationship with Volumnia and Aufidius. Tyrone Guthrie opened the Nottingham Playhouse in 1963 with a dazzling production which ended with Ian McKellen's Aufidius diving on to the body of John Neville's Coriolanus with a cry of despair. McKellen himself played Coriolanus in a 1984 National Theatre version which again highlighted the homoerotic nature of the hero's combat with Aufidius (Greg Hicks).

But Coriolanus is also the ultimate militaristic mummy's boy and this has emerged in many of the best productions: in Terry Hands's for the RSC in 1977, with Alan Howard; in Tim Supple's for Chichester in 1992 where Kenneth Branagh's hero was matched by Judi Dench's lion-hearted Volumnia; and by Josie Rourke's 2013 Donmar Warehouse version, where Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus was viewed with a mix of idolatry and exasperation by Deborah Findlay as his mother. One of the best pairings I've seen, however, was in the viscerally exciting Ralph Fiennes movie. Fiennes's battle-fatigued hero was superbly matched by Vanessa Redgrave as the archetypal, straight-backed mother devoted to the sanctity of the state.

Olivier on stage and Fiennes on film remain my favourite versions of this magnificent play.

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