Beautifully played farce, i.e. comedy of errors. Very glad I watched rather than trying to read it. It would be easier with the RSC version, but not as funny as seeing it.
The most serious part seem to be the man and wife relationships- – the arguments of Taming of the Shrew revisited, with the difference of a wife who has an exasperating and unfaithful husband to live with – why wouldn’t she be shrewish (from one point of view) or just hurt (from another).
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