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The Comedy of Errors

Closing: October 27, 2024

The Comedy of Errors - West End History , Info & More

Shakespeare's Globe
21 New Globe Walk City of London, Greater London SE1 9DT London
Market West End
Previews August 21, 2024
Back by popular demand, get ready to experience ‘the Globe at its most joyous’ (WhatsOnStage) as our ★★★★ production of The Comedy of Errors makes a triumphant return this summer.

Be transported back to Elizabethan London as the Globe transforms into a bustling dock – complete with ship masts and piers – where Shakespeare’s wild comedy about rival cities, long-lost siblings and mistaken identities comes to ‘brisk, boisterous and rib-tickling’ life (The Times) with ‘boundless energy and slapstick silliness’ ★★★★ (Broadway World).

Globe Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes (The Winter’s Tale, 2023) and 2023 Globe Resident Associate Director Naeem Hayat (King Lear, 2022) return to co-direct.

‘One of these men is Genius to the other;

And so, of these, which is the natural man

And which the spirit? who deciphers them?’

– Act V, scene 1

__Access Performances__

Relaxed - Tues 3 Sep 2pm & Wed 18 Sep 7.30pm


Captioned - Wed 4 Sep 7.30pm & Wed 16 Oct 7.30pm


Audio described - Sat 21 Sep 2pm & Fri 27 Sep 2pm


BSL - Sun 13 Oct 1pm & Sat 19 Oct 2pm

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