NT Live filming: The Comedy of Errors 1 March 2012

by William Shakespeare

This performance was broadcast live. Please note:

* This is a studio performance.
* The light and sound will be adjusted for broadcast.
* There will be 360degree filming – resulting in audience members being filmed.
* No latecomers will be admitted.

Details of the cinema screenings are available on the National Theatre Live website.

5 STARS
Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday

4 STARS
Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Guardian, Metro, Sunday Express

‘Wall-to-wall joy. Sublime.’ Daily Mail

‘Fabulous fun… Dominic Cooke’s imaginative, superbly acted contemporary production.’ Mail on Sunday

‘A comic delight…a savvy modern-dress production set in a recession-ravaged city.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Lenny Henry is wonderfully funny.’ Independent

‘Magnificently funny…a modern-urban production full of sharp ideas’ The Times

'Lenny Henry returns to Shakespeare... and once again he impresses.'  Daily Telegraph

Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself? 

Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse. 

National Theatre Live

The Comedy of Errors will be broadcast to cinemas across the UK and around the world on 1 March as part of National Theatre Live. Find your nearest cinema and book .

photo (Lenny Henry and Lucian Msamati) by Phil Fisk

NT Live filming: The Comedy of Errors 1 March 2012 finished on: 1 March 2012