Episode 1
Starting May 30, VPRO will broadcast a 10-part adaptation, made especially for television, of the six-hour play Roman tragedies by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA). For two weeks, every Sunday through Thursday on NPO2. Only in Dutch.
In this episode
Coriolanus is a successful general who emerges victorious from the war with the Volsces. He is nominated as consul, but his blunt statements make him unpopular with the common people and their representatives.