The Comedy of Errors, RSC, Barbican review - Shakespearean Christmas panto
A noisy, busy comedy that loses its anchor somewhere in the chaos "Am I myself?" At the tangled centre of Shakespeare's comedy of two pairs of identical twins, servant Dromio asks the question on which everything else hangs. The delivery is exasperated, the context bantering, but the words are the flimsy door onto an existential void this early play constantly threatens to tumble into. How can we know ourselves if o…