Antipholus and Dromio live in the rural South and travel to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s in this season’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival staging of The Comedy of Errors.
Director Kent Gash explains his reasoning for the novel setting in this video:
In what has the makings of a hysterical double bill, the festival will also host a performance of the Marx Brothers’ “Cocoanuts.” I’m tempted to add, “Because sometimes you feel like a nut” except few people will catch the reference and both plays are equally nutty.
I mean that in a good way.
For more on the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare Festival, here’s the SCOOP from the Oregonian.
A Year of Shakespeare 