Word: volumnia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keenest intelligence to carry all of that off, and Morgan Freeman accomplishes it in this rousing production of the play at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. It also requires one other thing, a figure of equal mettle in the tigress role of Coriolanus' mother, Volumnia...
Joining the Volscian commander Aufidius (Julian Glover), Coriolanus leads an army toward Rome, determined to burn the city. Only the heart-wrenching plea of his mother Volumnia (Maxine Audley) deters him, after which Aufidius slays...
Only in the climactic maternal confrontation, which should be unbearably tender, does Howard falter. Tears wet his cheeks, but he does not really seem to weep. Perhaps this is because Audley's Volumnia is like a stage mother who has pushed her son into the limelight, not nurtured him for later glory...