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SHAKESPEARE'S famous theatre The Globe may be synonymous with its London home, but a new take on the Bard's classic Comedy of Errors is reviving the touring tradition.
People often forget that theatre in the UK started on the road rather than in some of our much-loved playhouses.
While Shakespeare's Globe has its base in the English capital - an openair venue that is a reconstruction of the Elizabethan playhouse for which Shakespeare wrote - the company reintroduced touring in 2007 after a 400-year hiatus.
Taking a scaled-down version of Romeo and Juliet to different towns, theyperformed just as their forebears did, outside in theopenair inawealth of quirky venues - from churchyards to castle gardens.
Three years on, The Globe is now touring with Shakespeare's famous comic play, which this weekend stops off at St Donats Arts Centre in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Full of cross-purposesandmanicslapstick, The Comedy Of Errors is a hectic and hilarious tale of estranged brothers (both called Anthipholus) and twin servants (both called Dromio).
The actors perform on a traditional Elizabethan-style...