"a brilliantly bonkers production of one of Shakespeare's most fun plays"
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"The Comedy of Errors...proves to be a joyous celebration of Shakespeare's comedic genius"
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"...the production is a masterclass in honing in on Shakespeare’s comedic writing."
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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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"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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"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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