Franks chooses a 1940s setting. That allows each Antipholus to spend the second half of the evening in a smart white tuxedo. The Dromios wear crumpled stovepipe hats which could be out of the Marx Brothers.
A huge backdrop takes the form of a tourist poster, encouraging visitors with the slogan ‘Ephesus Welcomes You’. Under this is the small rider ‘excludes all those from Syracuse’.
The Duke of Ephesus (Alister Cameron) has a Gallic flavour, wearing a De Gaulle kepi, so we are probably in one of those French colonies in the Maghreb. All very Casablanca.
There is a small on-stage band, and at points the whole company joins in the singing.
In this Ephesus, it is only natural to find Shakespeare’s Courtesan (who is having a fling with one Antipholus) portrayed as a sultry jazz crooner (Anna-Jane Casey duly does the honours).

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