From the National Theater of England to the Concert Hall

Tickets are hard to come by and the audience travels to a chaotic universe, where two pairs of twins who have been separated since birth, they look for each other, in a city where things and monsters happen.

The reason for the "Comedy of Misunderstandings" («Comedy of Errors») by William Shakespeare which will be broadcast live from the National Theater of England on the screen of the Athens Concert Hall on Thursday 1st March in the Alexandra Trianti Hall, at 9 at night.

Humor, puns, confusion of identities, reversals, betrayals, seductions and love, all meet in large doses in this vertiginous Shakespearean comedy, in an inventive, moving modern version with remarkable interpretations, signed by the virtuoso director, Dominic Cooke.

In "The Comedy of Misunderstandings" the characters move in a world that is completely realistic, but also in a setting of illusion and delusion. The director takes us on a tour of a city of wonders and manages to make us feel its dual nature" writes Michael Billington of the Guardian.

The Comedy of Misunderstandings is one of Shakespeare's earliest works, its shortest, written before 1598. It combines raucous farce with idealized romance and is a forerunner of his more mature comedies - A Midsummer Night's Dream, End Good All Good, Twelfth Night, Race of Love 'Agonos', Much Ado About Nothing, Storm etc.

It has become an opera, film work and musical and one of the elements of this farce is that, while Shakespeare borrows plot elements from the farces of the Roman Plotinus, is already preparing its own comic idiom with its exciting clean-ups and complex characters.

This is the fifth consecutive broadcast by the National Theater of England hosted by the Concert Hall in collaboration with the British Embassy and the British Council.

Source : newsbeast.gr