Highly energetic, frenetically so at times, and with the slapstick factor dialled up to eleven, The Comedy of Errors is possibly the most perfect play to showcase this extraordinary performance venue.
For the uninitiated, Jersey Boys will hopefully come as something of a revelation. For those already in the know, this returning production is everything you could hope for and more – an absolute corker of a musical.
For those wishing to see an interesting intercultural take on Shakespeare’s classic, you could not possibly ask for a more engrossing venue to enjoy a collective theatrical experience than the Pop-up Globe.
Elegantly clad in a black full length, cut-away shouldered number Cathrine Summers was accompanied by the excellent Alastair Peel on keyboards and the clever pianist Ben Matthews.
Horror combines intense soundscapes, unsettling video projections, prodigiously precise performance, ingenious lighting techniques, meticulous trick sets and props, all working together to create some very impressive illusions.
Lewis and Fleming have hit upon something special in diffusing the inadvertently misogynistic potential of a more plodding approach to modernisation, they have created something that feels both timely and timeless, of the moment yet cut very much from the classic’s cloth.