Overview
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 as Junius Brutus
- Gloria Foster as Volumnia
- CCH Pounder as Valeria
- Earle Hyman as Cominius
- Roscoe Orman as Adrian
- Michele Shay as Virgilia
- Maurice Woods as Agrippa
- Keith David as Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
- Castulo Guerra as Senator / Nicanor / Officer
- Denzel Washington as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier