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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare’s Globe Touring Ensemble

Sunday 18th Aug 2019

location_city Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark

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The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays and his shortest.

"Shakespeare's furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset."

Shakespeare's Globe

21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
Southwark
London
SE1 9DT

Website

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com