“Rosset Makes New York Laugh With Shakespeare.” Folha de São Paulo. August 24, 1992.

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The moon appeared in the New York sky over a castle right in the middle of the set of Comedy of Errors, directed Cacá Rosset, at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Dragonflies, almost the size of rats, flew about over the stage.

The opening of the play, whose cast members include Marisa Tomei, Boyd Gaines and Elizabeth Franz, among others, is terrifying. The character Egeon is brought onstage in a cage, dressed in rags, and is promptly sentenced to death. This somber atmosphere is, however, not maintained for long because not one, but two pairs of twins—Egeon’s children and his two servants–soon enter and create a series of situations of mistaken identity in this, Shakespeare’s first, play, which is based  on Menaechmi, by Plautus.