 He also credited Mark Gatiss as excellent as Menenius, the "humorous patrician".In "Variety", David Benedict wrote that Deborah Findlay in her commanding maternal pride, held beautifully in opposition by Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Coriolanus's wife Virgilia.Helen Lewis, in her review of "Coriolanus", along with two other concurrently running sold-out Shakespeare productions with celebrity leads—David Tennant's "Richard II" and Jude Law's "Henry V"—concludes "if you can beg, borrow or plunder a ticket to one of these plays, let it be "Coriolanus"."