Word: antipholuses
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...plot itself is pure mechanistic comedy of the most elemental kind, revolving around an almost abstract symmetry of mistaken identities. In sketch as succinctly as possible, there are two pairs of twins, each pair sharing name Antipholus of Syracuse (Harry S. Murphy) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Paul Schierhorn), and their servant Dromio of Syracuse (Thomas Derrah) and Dromio of Ephesus (Stephen Rowe). The Antipholi and Dromios were separated in s shipwreck at a very young age, and now Antipholus of Ephesus, having sought his lost lost twin for seven years, finds himself in the hostile city of Syracuse, not knowing...
NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL GROUP, Old Globe Theater, San Diego (through Sept. 14). Macbeth with Richard Easton and Sada Thompson, Julius Caesar with Tom Toner and The Comedy of Errors with Christopher Walken and Laurence Guittard as the Antipholus twins share the summer months...
...other two twins--Antipholus of Syracuse, and Antipholus of Ephesus--George Comtois and Robert Croog (a) look alike, (b) act okay, but (c) sing a little short of the mark. Comtois has a couple of funny moments with his double's mate...
Actress Marcy Wescott is fair of face. Actress Muriel Angelus is full of grace. Eddie Albert, last year a frisky, puzzled Brother Rat. this year makes a no less puzzled Twin Brother Antipholus. Fast, lively, imaginative is the dancing. Casting, directing and timing are perfect. Dowagers leave the theatre like subdebs, whistling the most melodious tunes that a Rodgers & Hart musical has had in several years...
Robert Graham is excellent as Antipholus of Ephesus, but he still carries many of the pixilated mannerisms of his performance in "Brother Rat" along with him; Eddie Albert, the twin brother, is adequate and best when singing; Teddy Hart and Jimmy Save pall occasionally, but theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though...