 The play was broadcast in cinemas in the U.K. and internationally on 30 January 2014 as part of the National Theatre Live programme.Bertolt Brecht adapted Shakespeare's play in 1952–55, as "Coriolan" for the Berliner Ensemble.He intended to make it a tragedy of the workers, not the individual, and introduce the alienation effect; his journal notes showing that he found many of his own effects already in the text, he considered staging the play with only minimal changes.