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Royal Theatre

Pregnancy director Nina Spijkers was challenging The National Theatre on completion of Coriolanus

by Peter Olsthoorn
25 February 202325 February 2023
8 min read
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"That's what I'm going to tell Nina first, that afterwards the young women were the first to stand up and applaud and yell with enthusiasm for our Coriolanus." Remco van Rijn, dramaturge at The National Theatre, speaking after a try-out, just before the premiere of Coriolanus on 18 February. And Nina = Nina Spijkers, the original director of the play What...