Comedy of Errors: Royal Shakespeare Company, April 1990

Director: Ian Judge; Designer: Mark Thompson; Opening Date: 25 April 1990, Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

"Against a background of blue sky and fluffy white clouds, Mark Thompson's set features a series of doors, so beloved by farceurs, receding in crazy perspective. A huge porcupine, a centaur and a bottle of patent medicine are zanily suspended above the actors who are clad in Day-Glo costumes." Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 27 April 1990

This production affected the casual, improvisational style and stereotypes of the Italian commedia dell'arte street theatre. HMR

Photographer: Donald Cooper. Courtesy of AHDS.