The Comedy of Errors - National Theatre
Show Details

| Running dates | from Nov 22 2011 to Mar 31 2012 |
| Theatre | National Theatre |
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| My Rating | Review This Show |
| Cheapest ticket | £12 |
| Most expensive ticket | £45 |
| Michael Billington (The Guardian) | Full Review | |
| West End Whingers | Full Review | |
| Libby Purves (The Times) | Full Review | |
| Paul Taylor (The Independent) | Full Review | |
| Quentin Letts (Daily Mail) | Full Review | |
| Michael Coveney (What's on Stage, Independent) | Full Review | |
| Ian Shuttleworth (Financial Times) | Full Review | |
| Henry Hitchings (Evening Standard) | Full Review | |
| Charles Spencer (The Telegraph) | Full Review | |
| Caroline McGinn (Time Out) | Full Review |
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Overview, Cast and Creatives
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Synopsis | ||
| 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.
Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? 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. |
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| Author | William Shakespeare | |
| Director | Dominic Cooke | |
| Featured Actors/Actresses | Michelle Terry | |
| Amit Shah | ||
| Daniel Poyser | ||
| Simon Parrish | ||
| Jude Owusu | ||
| Rhiannon Oliver | ||
| Pamela Nomvete | ||
| Yvonne Newman | ||
| Joseph Mydell | ||
| Lucian Msamati | ||
| Chris Jarman | ||
| Adrian Hood | ||
| Lenny Henry | ||
| Clare Cathcart | ||
| Silas Carson | ||
| Ian Burfield | ||
| Claudie Blakley | ||
| Paul Bentall | ||
| Tom Anderson | ||
| Marcus Adolphy | ||
| Other Actors/Actresses | Rene Zagger | |
| Everal A Walsh | ||
| Grace Thurgood | ||
| Designer | Bunny Christie | |
| Lighting Designer | Paule Constable | |
| Sound | Christopher Shutt | |
| Assistant Director | Kate Waters | |
| Previous/Historical Author | William Shakespeare | |
| Movement/Choreography | Ann Yee | |
| Music | Gary Yershon | |





