>The Comedy of Errors

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What was it with the Elizabethans and the whole separated-twins thing? And in The Comedy of Errors, we have not one set of twins, but two: the Antipholus boys and their servants, the Dromio boys. (One imagines them on the set of Newhart: “This is my brother Dromio, and this is my other brother Dromio.”) Separated by shipwreck, one Antipholus and one Dromio go with the mother and one set with the father and the play is all about how they come together years later.

I saw the play tonight at the wonderful Blackfriars Playhouse of The American Shakespeare Center. Lots of slapstick, lots of laughs. Not Shakespeare’s finest, but still great fun.

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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