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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. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse in this new staging. And though The Comedy of Errors – a rumbustious, pun-laden mistaken-identity caper about two sets of identical twins – may be the closest thing Shakespeare wrote to a farce, Henry is approaching this not as a comic turn but a serious dramatic role.
“You’d be mistaken in thinking it’s all comedy and lah-di-dah,” he says. “There’s quite an emotional core to it …” His character, Antipholus of Syracuse, arrives in Ephesus in search of his twin brother, and “comes on wearing a mask of confidence”. But then, when he’s alone on stage, “he turns to the audience and suddenly you see he’s scared shitless: he’s lost, he has no family, he wants his family. And here he is again in another faceless city. And he’s just lost.” This is Henry’s first appearance on the stage of the National, and follows on from his award-winning appearance as Othello of two years ago.
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