Ah, yes. The Comedy of Errors. Mix-up of identities: ID. ID for travel. ID theft. Credit cards used by someone else. Family Loss: breakup. Why travel in the first place if the trip is so dangerous? Storm. Natural occurrence. Devastating. Thinking of J.M.W.Turner's stormscapes. Limbs and other lost objects. Laws in Ephesus. So strict. Death to residents of Syracuse. Town full of cozeners. Street fair. Fortune tellers, magicians, puppet shows, fire eaters, jugglers, games of skill, potions, cures, massage, souvenirs, jewelry, shells, oddities of the deep. Twins. Special powers of twins. Separated at birth. Nautical setting. Harbor or haven. Ships.Tourist trap. Dr. Pinch. Officers of The Law. Abbess. Widow’s walk. Three story house with widow’s walk. Casablanca. The film. Translate ships to airships. Marlene Dietrich - songstress. So often music is used for The Comedy of Errors. Trevor Nunn substituted songs by Guy Woolfenden for chunks of text. Sometimes only a phrase of the original text made it into performance. "Beg, borrow or steal to make up the sum, make up the sum, make up the sum..." This phrase in particular was used to great effect to emphasize the frame of the entire play. A Egeon's life was at over unless resolution could be found before day's end. Music of Bertolt Brecht. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYywhNi0-k&feature=related
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Those who had been archaeologists become spies.