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Comedy of Errors

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  So I was supposed to review Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Comedy of Errors  much earlier in its run but Covid in the cast led my ticked to be rescheduled for final weekend. Therefore I don't think anyone is counting on the awesome power of my words and the magnificent reach of my audience to sell a lot of tickets but here I am fulfilling my obligations anyway. If you happen to not know what you're doing the night of April 22nd or the afternoon of April 23rd you should be aware of your option to see this show which is not to say that I necessarily would. The title is a bit misleading. Yes it's Shakespeare's early farce about two sets of identical twins separated at birth and lots of slammed doors, but it's mostly sharing the stage with a frame story set during the Blitz period of World War II. With London under attack the showbiz community is making a film adaptation of the play to raise a nation's spirits. "It's that damned Hitler! It's all hi