LONDON REVIEWS - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Financial Times - Ian Shuttleworth - November 29, 2000
"David Tennant as Antipholous of Syracuse shows himself much more delightfully attuned to broad comedy here and in the concurrent production of The Rivals . . . and quite eclipses his surlier Ephesian brother played by Anthony Howell."
Evening Standard - Rachel Halliburton - December 4, 2000
"As Antipholus of Syracuse, David Tennant proves a fine physical comedian, and his lankiness contrasts appealingly with the squatter Dromio played with pleasingly elaborate frivolity by Ian Hughes.
The play is meant to be one of Shakespeare's earliest, which is certainly reflected in some very stodgy wordplay, but Tennant and Hughes whisk the audience through such potentially stolid moments with a slick combination of absurd facial expressions, jerky synchronised movements, and visual games of which Laurel and Hardy would have been proud."
"David Tennant as Antipholous of Syracuse shows himself much more delightfully attuned to broad comedy here and in the concurrent production of The Rivals . . . and quite eclipses his surlier Ephesian brother played by Anthony Howell."
Evening Standard - Rachel Halliburton - December 4, 2000
"As Antipholus of Syracuse, David Tennant proves a fine physical comedian, and his lankiness contrasts appealingly with the squatter Dromio played with pleasingly elaborate frivolity by Ian Hughes.
The play is meant to be one of Shakespeare's earliest, which is certainly reflected in some very stodgy wordplay, but Tennant and Hughes whisk the audience through such potentially stolid moments with a slick combination of absurd facial expressions, jerky synchronised movements, and visual games of which Laurel and Hardy would have been proud."