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The Comedy of Errors 2024

Opened: August 21, 2024
Closing: October 27, 2024

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Shakespeare's Globe
21 New Globe Walk City of London, Greater London SE1 9DT London

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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