Grab your picnic blanket and a delicious bottle of wine; the Leura Shakespeare Festival is back this summer!
The award-winning Sport for Jove Theatre Company has been bringing Shakespeare’s finest works to life at Leura’s Everglades House & Gardens since 2010.
In January, this much-anticipated annual Shakespearean event returns with a stunning production of The Comedy of Errors, set in scenic surrounds.
The Comedy of Errors
Errors: noun (plural) … the unintended consequences of being human: missteps, misjudgements, misrecognitions – moments where intention collides with reality and falls disastrously short.
Errors are how we get lost, how we hurt each other, how we become strangers to ourselves – but also, sometimes, how we stumble into truth.
So, welcome to Ephesus – the great hustling, bustling metropolis of Europe – the perfect place to lose yourself. Utterly.
This city pulses with bureaucratic-derangement, broken immigration systems and capitalist fever, political dogfights, fierce border patrols and spiralling debt, enchanting nightlife, cheap thrills and grifter’s magic. Into that milieu, tumbles a family torn apart by war, exile, and rotten luck, but they are given the chance to create their own miracle – to find each other again after decades apart! But how do you find anything when everyone is lost, and everyone is searching for something: asylum, belonging, connection, or simply themselves?
Sport for Jove’s modern, razor-sharp take on The Comedy of Errors shatters Shakespeare’s mistaken identity farce wide open – exposing the ache of dislocation, the absurdity of city living, and the miracle of rediscovery and reconciliation. As lives are upended and egos unravel, what emerges is something far greater: the healing power of reunion, and the liberation of laughter that reminds us we’re still human after all. Even if we don’t exactly know who we are…
Fast, funny, and fever-pitch, this is Shakespeare with the volume up and the heart wide open, where errors are both chaos and catalyst: a comedy of wrong turns that somehow leads us home. So, go on, get lost…to get found. Confusion never looked so good. Or so familiar.
