The Comedy of Errors - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
Simon Harrison
Antipholus of Syracuse
Matthew Needham
Antipholus of Ephesus
Jamie Wilkes
Dromio of Ephesus
Brodie Ross
Dromio of Syracuse
Hattie Ladbury
Adriana
Becci Gemmell
Luciana
James Laurenson
Egeon
Linda Broughton
Aemilia
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