See it if you want accessible Shakespeare, a wooden ship which parts the waves of the audience, humour, to see how all the confusion is resolved!
Don't see it if Shakespeare or Shakespearean stagings are not your thing, or you want super comfortable surroundings, (The Globe is open to the elements)
See it if you want to see an entertaining Shakespeare play with a cast of up-and-coming future superstars
Don't see it if you don't like comedies or The Globe theatre
See it if You want to see a very well done, Shakespearean comedy
Don't see it if You don’t want to sit on benches or stand
See it if You like to spend a good time with great actors in a remarkable theatre
Don't see it if You don't like Shakespeare
See it if you like zippy Shakespearean comedies, being at the Globe, and stories involving mistaken identities
Don't see it if You prefer more serious work
See it if you like breakneck Shakespeare with a sense of fun.
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See it if you want a good time to laugh
Don't see it if you like something more serious
See it if You like comedy plays of Shakespeare
Don't see it if You prefer history or tragedies. When I watched there were 2 substitutes which can happen but not wearing their character attires spoiled it
"Holmes’ production is lean and lucid enough...Mostly I think Holmes has identified the fact that overegging ‘The Comedy of Errors’ makes it harder to digest, not easier, and that with it comes to making it a genuine comedy, less is more."
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"Holmes’s achievement here is to chart the emotional byways of a text whose characters seem forever to be beating one another up – when, that is, they’re not seeking to be made whole...All credit, therefore, to Holmes, who takes Comedy seriously, which means monitoring its shifts in mood."
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"Bursting with exuberant energy, this frenetic version of Shakespeare’s most contrived comedy is accessible, often uproarious and unapologetically shallow... the production rattles through the twisty plot at a breakneck pace, relying on momentum and slapstick set pieces to carry the audience along."
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"It’s so funny precisely because Holmes takes the text seriously. His excellent ensemble...deliver a fantastically clear, zippy production as they don moustaches and dresses and get increasingly, hilariously annoyed at each other."
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" 'The Comedy of Errors' might not be Shakespeare’s deepest work but this production showcases the Globe at its most joyous and ‘authentic’, and marks an excellent start to the outdoor theatre season."
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"The audience interaction reels us in without overdoing it and the actors seem comfortable with the text, happy to embellish the Bard’s dialogue with their own distinctive comic gifts."
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"Some of the delivery, verbal and physical, is overpitched. The cast, however, are avid to entertain us while plunging into the ridiculous spins of a plot that takes in mistaken identity galore...This broad, headlong stream of rib-tickling, rumbustious nonsense has serious undercurrents."
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"...Sean Holmes’s production is more rumbustious than reflective. It recognises, but doesn’t dwell on, the unsettling nature of the situation, while revelling in the comic confusion."
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