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...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 tat this brother lives there. Naturally, all sense...
More appealing symbolism surfaces in the series of visual images which are a Serban trademark and which are enhanced in this production by Montresor's ghostly, haunting light design. Andrei (Thomas Derrah), the three sisters' only brother, and his fiancee, the inhospitable Natasha, kiss in the foreground while everyone else in the cast trots offstage in a long line, their faces illuminated and their bodies dark against the back wall...
Cherry Jones as Irina delivers with sensitivity a difficult monologue about the pointlessness of life in general and of work in particular. And Thomas Derrah's Andrei is a compellingly unhappy cuckold and failure. It is hard to understand, though, why the servants have been directed to speak in distorted voices like the Elephant...
...woodchoppers; fathers, daughters, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The crispness of their timing pays tribute to Serban's directorial presence. The succession of escapades which entangle the various Sganarelles come alive precisely on cue. Standing out in particular are the straight-ahead dead-pan and clever mime of Thomas Derrah and the pestering complaints of Richard Grusin, both of whom have a turn in the title role...
...supporting cast works with the same attention to comic detail that enlivened Epstein's baroque production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last year. William McGlinn's mincing music teacher. Thomas Derrah's stuttering judge, Chris Clemenson's lumbering clerk and Albert Duclos' staggering, alcoholic gardener together cover the entire spectrum of sycophancy...