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The Comedy of Errors (2006)
directed by Chris Luscombe
Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholous), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them ito a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have the chief ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholous is given gold in the street and invited to dinner by a woman who thinks she's his wife; the other is barred from his own house and rebuffed by his jeweller. Caught in between, the Dromios are soundly beaten for disobeying each other's orders.
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare outdoes the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furios slapstick and social nightmare.
Creative Team
Director: Christopher Luscombe
Designer: Janet Bird
Composer: Julian Philips
Fight Director: Malcom Ranson
Choreographer: Jenny Arnold
Cast
Richard O’Callaghan - Egeon
David Sturzaker - Solinus
Richard Riddell - First Officer
Samuel Bawden - Second Officer
Thomas Padden - First Merchant
Andrew Havill - Antipholus of Syracuse
Eliot Giuralarocca - Dromio of Syracuse
Sarah Woodward - Adriana
Laura Rees - Luciana
Simon Wilson - Antipholus of Ephesus
Jake Harders - Balthasar
Ben Crystal - Lucius
Chris Emmett - Angelo
Patrick Moy - Second merchant
Cate Debenham-Taylor - Courtesan
Thomas Padden - Dr Pinch
Darlene Johnson - Ǽmilia
Discover the Play
Discover other productions of The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare's Globe:
Discover the actors' experiences making the production in Adopt An Actor:
Laura Rees as Luciana
David Sturzaker as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
