Pros: Excellent performers, ingenious design and impeccable direction. Cons: The period setting is sometimes confused. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest works and certainly his shortest. Significantly influenced by Plautus’ Latin comedy Menaechmi, it is the story of two pairs of twins who fall victim to a series of mishaps related to their ambiguous identity. Egeon (Paul Croft) is a merchant from Syracuse who heads to Ephesus in search of one of his twin sons, lost twenty-five ...

In a single hour I laughed and shed a tear and really felt a part of the family’s drama. It truly feels like it is a story told from the heart.

It’s the right play, with the right cast, in the right venue. A great addition to the performance history of King Lear.