David Stabler, The Oregonian

February 27, 2014

“The Comedy of Errors” isn’t that funny. The lines are not nearly as witty as “Twelfth Night” or as clever as “As You Like It.” Puns and wordplay make us smile, not laugh.

And the plot holds no surprises. If we don’t know going in that it’s about mistaken identity, with two sets of identical twins separated at birth, we find out within the first few minutes. We know the joke and spend the rest of the time observing confusion and argument. Everybody argues, all the time.

The actors and director save the show with physical comedy and deft delivery, and that’s what happens in the last of four plays to open the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 79th season in Ashland. […continued]

Comedy of Errors

BY William Shakespeare
DIRECTOR Kent Gash

WITH  Rodney Gardiner, Tobie Windham,  Omoze Idehenre, Jerome Preston Bates, and Tyrone Wilson

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