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Press release: The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare, directed by Sarah Hawkins

18th - 23rd May 2009 at 7.45pm. Matinée 23rd May at 2.30pm.

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The next production at The Chesil Theatre, Winchester, The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare is a comedy which exploits to the full the potential for misunderstanding of identical twins.

Just to complicate matters there are two sets of twins so the Chesil is using the old convention that if characters are dressed the same they are indistinguishable both to the audience and everyone else on stage!

The siblings were parted at birth and are accidentally brought together in Ephesus. Mayhem follows in a mesmerising and accelerating confusion of identities. Director Sarah Hawkins said: “This Shakespeare’s lightest, shortest play - an unashamed farce. Tightly-constructed and fast-paced, it is just fun.”

Tickets: £8 Monday and Saturday Matinee, £10 Tuesday to Saturday from the Theatre Royal box office Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8SB Tel 01962 840440

For more information see the website www.chesiltheatre.org.uk

 Photos by Malcolm Brown.

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Call yourself a loyal servant… Antipholus of Syracuse (Tom Maggs) upbraids his servant Dromio of Syracuse (Peter McGrath)

Marital tiff…an unhappy Adriana (Nicola Pink) with her husband Antipholus of Ephesus (Sebastian Watt)

Are you who I think you are?…Luciana (Christina Pye) is not sure if her sweetheart Antipholus of Ephesus (Tom Maggs) is who he says he is.

You look familiar… Dromio of Syracuse (Peter McGrath) meets Dromio of Ephesus (Gary Nicholson)

Double, double trouble when the twins meet…Dromio of Ephesus (Gary Nicholson) is quizzically examined by Antipholus of Syracuse (Tom Maggs) while Antipholus of Epheseus (Sebastian Watt) is equally suspicious of Dromio of Syracuse (Peter McGrath)