T.S. Eliot may have preferred “Coriolanus” to “Hamlet,” but Daniel Sullivan’s uneven new production at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park offers a muddled case for its virtues. The troubles start with Jonathan Cake (“Desperate Housewives”), who brings a buff boyishness to the title role of a high-born Roman soldier whose contempt for the common man is not unjustified given their apparent willingness to run from a fight (leaving him to defeat an entire city single-handed...
'Coriolanus' Theater Review: Jonathan Cake Plays Shakespeare's Ultimate Mama's Boy
The Wrap - 6 Aug 2019 05:00
T.S. Eliot may have preferred “Coriolanus” to “Hamlet,” but Daniel Sullivan’s uneven new production at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park offers a muddled case for its virtues. The troubles start with Jonathan Cake (“Desperate Housewives”), who brings a buff boyishness to the title role of a high-born Roman soldier whose contempt for the common man is not unjustified given their apparent willingness to run from a fight (leaving him to defeat an entire city single-handed...
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