The Comedy of Errors

Synopsis

Sets of twins, hilarious storytelling and wonderful humanity in the Bard's comic masterpiece and shortest play. Naturally, there are two cases of mistaken identity to deal with in this tale of 24 hours in the life of two sets of twins.

Our Review:

7 April 2010

It pays to concentrate on the 421 word opening speech by Fred Ridgeway’s Egeon in William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, as it explains the complex story. Once you have grasped the plot with its twists and turns, you can enjoy the slapstick, word puns and mistaken identities that make up this funny farce.  

Egeon has twin boys, both called Antipholus.  He buys another set of twins who share the name Dromio to be his sons’ servants. Following a ship wreck involving Egeon, his wife and the four siblings, he saves one Antipholus and one Dromio but abandons his wife and the others. It helps to call those he rescues, the Syracuse pair.

After 25 years, Egeon travels to Ephesus to find his lost family. It is best to call the lost pair, the Ephesus pair after the town where they have lived and Antipholus has married.  Egeon doesn’t realise that the Syracuse pair have gone there, too. Stil...

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Steven Jackson - 21 May 2010:

I loved it, the comedy was great, even doing one of Shakespeare's earlieast plays and still the audience love it, the physicality and the slapstick too....

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