Comedy of Errors, The

Synopsis: Syndicated radio broadcast, directed by Andrew C. Love, of Will Huddleston’s stage production of The Comedy of Errors for the 1976 Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The production was set in an American carnival. The actors playing the Antipholus twins (Barry and Brian Mulholland) were identical twins.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 1976
Duration: 60 mins
Availability: No archive copy known (2007)

Theatre: Bowmer Theatre, Ashland
Theatre company: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Production type: Television and Radio Drama
Plays: Comedy of Errors, The
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Doubling of roles; Oregon Shakespeare Festival

General: The cast credits are those taken from the cast of the stage production as cast details for the radio production were not available. It has been assumed that the cast is the same but because the radio version is much shorter some of the roles may have been cut.
History: Transmission date not known.
Reviews: Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. Jensen notes that there was a long introduction in which all the plays produced in the season’s festival were noted. The ‘carnivalesque’ version was reduced to ‘a sampler of scenes’ for the hour broadcast.

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