The Comedy of Errors (2014)
In Shakespeare’s uproarious comedy of mistaken identity, mayhem, and misunderstandings, two twin brothers and their twin servants are separated from each other and embark on a riotous search to find their other halves.
'If everyone knows us and we know none, 'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.'
In Shakespeare’s uproarious comedy of mistaken identity, mayhem, and misunderstandings, two twin brothers and their twin servants are separated from each other and embark on a riotous search to find their other halves.
This 2014 production from the Globe stage features Hattie Ladbury as Adriana.
Synopsis
Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos.
One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.
Cast
Pinch/First Merchant:
Stefan Adegbola
Gaoler/Officer/Headsman:
Andy Apollo
Angelo:
Paul Brendan
Aemilia, the Abbess:
Linda Broughton
Balthasar/ Second Merchant:
Gershwyn Eustache Jr
Luciana:
Becci Gemmell
Solinus:
Peter Hamilton Dyer
Antipholus of Syracuse:
Simon Harrison
Courtesan:
Emma Jerrold
Adriana:
Hattie Ladbury
Egeon:
James Laurenson
Antipholus of Ephesus:
Matthew Needham
Luce/ Messenger:
Anne Odeke
Dromio of Syracuse:
Brodie Ross
Dromio of Ephesus:
Jamie Wilkes
Creatives
Designer:
James Cotterill
Composer:
Olly Fox
Directed for the Screen:
Ross MacGibbon
Director:
Blanche McIntyre