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National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors

Presented by Irvine Barclay Theatre and Arts Orange County at Irvine Barclay Theatre

March 26, 2012

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The Best in British theatre screenings from the UK's National Theatre continue with a new twist on an old favorite.

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. Multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And, for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio. In search of their brothers, they have arrived in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. To the outsiders the buzzing metropolis appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!”

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.

“Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself?”

Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.

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    Irvine Barclay Theatre

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    March 26, 2012

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    7:15 p.m.

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