First thought of setting The Comedy of Errors in Reconstruction South or -- maybe a mid-Atlantic city. A time of upheaval, reorganization, overthrow of old order. Loss. People displaced by conflict. Carpetbaggers. Late Victorian. Need for costume. Problem with necessity of using Southern accents. Same time as Little Women, Gone With the Wind. Character types. Adriana (Scarlett), Luciana (Melanie Wilks), Antipholus of Ephesus (Rhett Butler), Antipholus of Syracusa (Ashley) The Dromios (the Talbot twins)...Mammy! Miss Prissy!! Dinner is Bar-B-Que. This is paradoy. How to keep the truth. The docks. The tie ups. Same as the ones in Baltimore and Liverpool. Same companies designed and built the docks. Their ships were the business. Fast links. Through Liverpool and Bristol for the slave trade. When I lived in Bristol I recognized the moorings from growing up in Baltimore. McCormick spices.