The Comedy of Errors - Judi Dench - Roger Rees - Richard Griffiths - SN ARCHIVES - 1977 - 4K
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- In 1976, under the direction of Trevor Nunn, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) staged a new production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Nunn set the play in a modern day Mediterranean tourist trap, and re-worked the text into a musical comedy with music by Guy Woolfenden.
The production featured amongst its cast Judi Dench, Roger Rees, and Richard Griffiths.
The musical version of The Comedy of Errors was performed for a week-long engagement at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne between March 29, 1977 and April 9, 1977.
The Comedy of Errors opened in the West End at the Aldwych Theatre on December 14, 1977.
The production won the 1977 Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
In reviewing the best stagings of The Comedy of Errors, English theatre critic Michael Billington described the RSC production as “Pure magic.” The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical states it was “a high point of the RSC’s legendary productions in the late seventies.”
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Oh, I remember this, and it hasn't aged a day. Wonderful to see the lovely Griff Jones again. Griff was a movie star in the Thirties best known for The Wicked Lady. He was acting at Stratford into his nineties. Dad of tv stars Nick Jones and Gemma, once an RSC mainstay, but famous as The Duchess of Duke Street a much loved long running BBC TV series.
I saw this live in 1977. I was 9! It’s all coming back...
I saw it in 76. Was reading on the steps behind the theatre, waiting for the matinee of a different play and the set designer came past with the maquette for CofE and stopped to show it to us. I'd never seen a maquette before. And then to saw it full size later in the season. Showed the video to my kids years later and they can still sing the songs
Brilliant directing and acting, and making it a musical was genius. Just what this play needed.
Thankyou. I first saw this RSC production in 1977 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne. The atmosphere was electrified by the presence of such a brilliant cast and their acting.
You're very welcome! Cheers!
You were so lucky!!!!❤❤❤
..........and judi dench on stage with her late husband Michael - what a treat!
I directed this once: fun play, can be a big hit with the outdoor crowd. :)
I remember seeing this production on PBS (I think) 40+ years ago. It was just as excellent as I remember. Thanks for presenting this.
Interesting that the audience didn’t give them a standing ovation. They were AMAZING
Gosh I saw this live in Stratford and loved it.
Me too, I was 15.
Thanks for sharing this. I remember watching this in the early and mid eighties.
Thanks for this upload
I played the sister in a college performance, one of my favourite roles ever!
The woman crying at the end is so touching
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Thank you 🙏
You're very welcome! Cheers!
Thank you❤️
06:36 So inspiring!😂 An interested kid watching a Shakespeare's play.
I am 25, by the way. And Russian, moreover 😃
so much fun!!
Love this
This movie is taught in english literature ❤
Luciana: the sweetest thing on earth 😍, half a century ago 😭
awesome
A lot of familiar faces of British stage and screen on stage together.
' Good ' mainstream theatre, and the songs especially the one at the end sounded as if it had been cast out of ' Hair' - its older brother so to speak.
Why are theatre directors so terrified of setting Shakespeare in the actual time and dress of the period the play is set in?
We never see 'Pride and Prejudice' set in Iron age Britain or Sung dynasty China, or 'Oliver Twist set in 12thC Paris.. do we..
I suppose they consider that setting it in the actual period and dress would be far too radical and offensive to their peers.
I want to see Shakespeare in either the setting he depicted it in, or the setting of contemporary Shakespeare, so I agree with you. So many place these plays in their chosen time periods.
Clueless, set in modern day America, is more or less an adaptation of Austen's Emma... Well worth watching ;-).
i love this play! thank you for uploading, shakespeare network! you're doing the Lord's work with this channel🥰🫶