newtheatre/history-project

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title: "The Comedy of Errors - A Shakespeare Experiment"
playwright: William Shakespeare
company: Fine Frenzy Theatre
season: External
season_sort: 285
period: Spring
venue: New Theatre
date_start: 2013-06-03
date_end: 2013-06-07
canonical:
  - title: The Comedy of Errors

cast:
  - role: Antipholus of Syracuse
    name: Chris Walters
  - role: Dromio of Syracuse
    name: Jack Holden
  - role: Antipholus of Ephesus
    name: Sam Warren
  - role: Dromio of Ephesus
    name: Aaron Tej
  - role: Adriana
    name: Amelia Gann
  - role: Luciana
    name: Ellie Cawthorne
  - role: Duke / Dr Pinch
    name: John Bell
  - role: Egeon
    name: Greg Link
  - role: Angelo
    name: Ben Hollands
  - role: Prologue / The Strong Arm of the Law
    name: Ben Williamson
  - role: Courtesan
    name: Emma McDonald
  - role: Emilia
    name: Jess Courtney
  - role: 1st Merchant / Messenger
    name: Chloe Bickford
  - role: 2nd Merchant
    name: Sam Greenwood

crew:
  - role: Director
    name: Gus Miller
  - role: Producer
    name: Martha Wilson
  - role: Assistant Director
    name: Dave Porter
  - role: Lighting Designer
    name: Aubrey Turner

assets:
  - type: poster
    image: tcXJqWH

links:
  - type: Review
    href: https://impactnottingham.com/2013/06/the-comedy-of-errors-nottingham-new-theatre/
    snapshot: YG4Vn
    publisher: Impact Nottingham
    author: Rachel Considine
    title: "The Comedy of Errors @ Nottingham New Theatre"
    date: 2013-06-04
    quote: "As the blurb on the Nottingham New Theatre website suggests: ‘Things could go horribly wrong. Or they could go horribly, horribly right’. I think it is clear this production of The Comedy of Errors pulled off the latter."
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A co-production between Fine Frenzy Theatre and The Nottingham New Theatre
Two sets of twins. One town. No idea.
The first performances of Shakespeare's plays happened after only a couple of days of rehearsal. The result was raw, precarious and no-doubt thrilling as Shakespeare's words found their first life in front of an audience.
Now, with a box of kid's toys, 14 superb actors and 48 hours to rehearse, Fine Frenzy Theatre attempt to rediscover that same immediacy with Shakespeare's shortest, funniest, most downright insane play.
Things could go horribly wrong.
Or they could go horribly, horribly right...