19:00, Wed 16th September – Fri 2nd October 2015 at Venues across Japan
19:00, Tue 13th – Sat 17th October 2015 at Corpus Playroom
20:30, Sun 18th October 2015 at Old Sorting Office Arts Centre, London
Summer Vacation to Michaelmas Week 2

For the ninth consecutive year the Pembroke Players Japan Tour will once again be be visiting Tokyo and Yokohama with a company of some of Cambridge’s finest actors, directors, and technical crew, to perform a Shakespeare play and give educational workshops in schools, theatres and universities.

‘They say this town is full of cozenage…’

Ephesus and Syracuse are in conflict. Any Syracusan found in Ephesus — a city known for disguise, deceit and sorcery — will be condemned to death.

One pair of twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of twin servants (both called Dromio) are separated at birth. When one Antipholus and one Dromio, both of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, they are thrown into a heady mixture of confusion and chaos: soon realising that in this city, things are definitely not all they seem.

'What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?'

Prepare for an intoxicating, entrancing Comedy of Errors, with live music and a stylish aesthetic inspired by Highsmith and Hitchcock. Enter a world of souks and bazaars, shady merchants, and figures hiding beneath wide-brimmed fedoras, a whirlwind of violent cross-purposes and social disarray, where the consequences of one’s mistakes may prove very dangerous.

‘I’ll say as they say and persever so, / And in this mist at all adventures go.’