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The Comedy of Errors (1978/I) (TV)
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18 April 1978 (UK) morePlot:
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Brian Coburn | ... | The Duke | |
| Griffith Jones | ... | Aegeon | |
| Roger Rees | ... | Antipholus of Syracuse | |
| Mike Gwilym | ... | Antipholus of Ephesus | |
| Michael Williams | ... | Dromio of Syracuse | |
| Nickolas Grace | ... | Dromio of Ephesus | |
| Judi Dench | ... | Adriana | |
| Francesca Annis | ... | Luciana | |
| Paul Brooke | ... | Angelo | |
| Norman Tyrrell | ... | Balthasar | |
| Barbara Shelley | ... | Courtesan | |
| Robin Ellis | ... | Dr. Pinch | |
| Marie Kean | ... | Aemelia | |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Officer | |
| Jacob Witkin | ... | Porpentine Proprieter |
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This is an extremely entertaining adaptation of the play. The acting is top-notch, in particular Dame Judi and Michael Williams who made me laugh my head off. Roger Rees and Mike Gwilym do a fantastic job of giving the two Antipholi different personalities (Rees's is like Bertie Wooster, Gwilym's is like Sonny Corleone). The setting is updated to a modern Greek island, but not in such a way that it overwhelms the text. There is a lot of excellent physical comedy and slapstick.
The only annoying aspect of the production is that Nunn felt the urge to pad out the text with songs and turn the play into a musical. The songs are mostly terrible and their banal lyrics grate against Shakespeare's intricate wordplay. But that's what fast-forward buttons were invented for, and if you skip the singing, you're left with an extremely well-crafted and funny production. It's worth the effort.
This isn't a proper film as such, but rather a recording of a live performance. Its seems designed in part to act as a promo video for the RSC, and the performance is intercut with shots of old ladies sobbing at the beauty of it all, and young children rapt with wonder. This is mildly nauseating (I hate being told what to think). But I will forgive this too, because if I'd been there on the night, it would have blown me away too.