The Boys From Syracuse at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse from 5 September

"If it’s good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enough for us."

Rodgers and Hart’s classic 1938 musical comedy adaptation of The Comedy of Errors returns to the London stage for its debut at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, in a madcap tale of mistaken identity, danger and romance in ancient Greece!

Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus as part of a long search for their respective identical twins from whom they were separated as children during a shipwreck. But citizens of Syracuse caught in Ephesus are subject to the death penalty. As fate has it, there’s another Antipholus who’s an established citizen of Ephesus, served by another Dromio. Confusions multiply as wives are baffled by husbands, one twin is wrongly jailed and Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with his wife’s sister – or does he?

Arguably Rodgers and Hart’s best, the score includes the hit songs Falling in Love with Love; This Can’t Be Love and Sing for Your Supper.

Cast members are Caroline Kennedy (Sweeney Todd), Georgie Faith (Call Me Madam), Karen Wilkinson (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), Bernadine Pritchett (The Phantom of the Opera), John Faal (Sense and Sensibility: The Musical), Brendan Matthew, Simon de Deney and Enzo Benvenuti.

Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart; Book by George Abbott

Directed by Mark Giesser

Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd., Produced by Alces Productions & Chromolume