(Pic by Val Adamson: Devin Möller, Lihle Cele, Brett Collopy and Noxolo Malimba)Madcap comedy about mistaken identity for UKZN Annual Shakespeare Festival.
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s wonderful madcap comedy about mistaken identity, will be presented at the Annual Shakespeare Festival at the Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College Campus for six performances in association with the Centenary Celebrations for the College of Humanities.
The Comedy of Errors tells the story about two sets of twins who were separated at birth. When their paths overlap, a series of glorious complications, mistaken identities and general chaos ensues which leads to conflict, love and arrest with accusations of infidelity, madness and criminal activity. It is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays - and his shortest - and is one of his most farcical and frothy comedies.
To put an interesting spin on the proceedings, however, the play is set in contemporary Durban in and around the Moses Mabhida Stadium against the backdrop of the pending FIFA World Cup incorporating current music and the diski dance! The players all meet up in Durban – they are World Cup fans visiting the city to catch the soccer. This silly, crazy fun farce includes a fake healer, a prostitute, vendors and dozens of soccer fans! It features a cast of 55 and is jointly directed by Tamar Meskin, Rowin Munsamy and Mervyn McMurtry, with designs by Mervyn McMurtry.
The Comedy of Errors runs from May 11 to 16 at 18h30 nightly at the Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre.. Tickets R30 (R15 students, scholars, pensioners and block bookings over 10. Teachers bringing scholars are admitted free.) Contact Claudette Wagner for bookings and/or information: 031 260 3133, fax 031 260 1410 or email wagnerc1@ukzn.ac.za
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