One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found. This Royal Shakespeare Company production, in association with Told by an Idiot was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Clapham Community Project and was devised and directed by Paul Hunter.
It's not easy to turn a school hall into Ephesus, but a string of fairy lights do the trick, and the actors who become a raggle-taggle band to play Iain Johnstone's atmospheric score enter into the make-and-do spirit of the enterprise.