THE final production of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Rome season at Stratford-upon-Avon will take place next month.

Directed by Angus Jackson. Coriolanus joins the repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in mid-September and is cross-cast with Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus. All four productions transfer to London’s Barbican Theatre from November 6.

As previously announced playing the title role is Sope Dirisu, who most recently performed as Cassisus Clay in One Night in Miami (Donmar Warehouse) and ITV’s The Halcyon.

He is joined by Haydn Gwynne who returns to the RSC after 11 years to play his mother, Volumnia. Haydn can currently be seen as Camilla in series two of Channel 4’s The Windsors. Her other credits include The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); as Margaret Thatcher in The Audience and in TV’s Father Brown, Uncle and Death in Paradise.

Also returning to the RSC is Associate Artist Paul Jesson who plays Menenius. He was last at the RSC with Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies in which he played Cardinal Wolsey in the Swan Theatre, West End and Broadway productions.

Paul’s other credits include the movie adaptation of Coriolanus directed by Ralph Fiennes and Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner.

The company also includes Charles Aitken (Cominius); Tony Boncza (Senator) and James Corrigan (Aufidius).

Coriolanus opens on Friday, September 15 and runs through to Saturday, October 14.