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This is a treat!

after spending 20 minutes watching a man strangle his wife last week, (again! and not forgetting the trauma of Emillia's Mount Etna of hysterics) this Errors proved the ideal antidote.

I see a lot of fringe Shakespeare but don't bother to write reviews; most of it merits two words, either "quite interesting" or "slightly dull" or occasionally "pretty good" but I love the plays and generally find something to like in all productions .. and I keep going, because out there are productions like this.

Premier division fringe. Brilliant chemistry, high energy and fabulous performances from the leads. They take up the Carry On theme used in Christopher Luscombe's recent Globe version but shamelessly and successfully reset it in the '70s, shades of eric and ernie. After all the weighty and self-important productions of the big tragedies in recent months to be able to go into a theatre and leave my brain outside (this is The Comedy Of Errors afterall) was a delight, and to leave grinning rather than emotionally exhausted.

I was intrigued when viewing the cast photos before hand that one actor was playing both Antipholuses and both Dromios which raised ONE BIG question.....? Did they pull this off.....? Well, not really but this hardly marred the previous 90s mins. This isn't the Royal Shakespeare Co. doing King Lear, it's the fringe and it's the Comedy Of Errors and it's ENORMOUS fun.