The Rose, Bankside: It would be hard to find two more contrasting takes on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors than the National's recent, flashy production and the inevitably small-scale affair at the tiny Rose Theatre. At the National, when Egeon describes his sons' separation at sea, Bunny Christie's gargantuan set was cleft in two. At the Rose, a massive toothpick is snapped in half. Read the …
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:45AM on April 10, 2012