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Contents

Cast and Production Team

Edward Hall on Propeller

Farce and Humanity: The Comedy of Errors

Designing The Comedy of Errors

Music in The Comedy of Errors

This Edition

The Comedy of Errors

Propeller’s The Comedy of Errors was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, on 19 January 2011, with the following cast:

The DUKE of Ephesus Richard Clothier

AEGEON, a merchant of Syracuse John Dougall