While researching plays on mistaken identity to help with our piece in drama, I remember a play we went to see and studied last year which was Shakespeares 'Comedy Of Errors' this play is about twins whos get their identities mixed up.
http://www.oocities.org/athens/delphi/5804/comedy.htm
"In Shakespeare's first comedy, The Comedy of Errors, mistaken identity is the sole impetus behind the action, as it had been with its original sources. The germinal idea of asking how one really knows who one is introduced, but the conflicts that occur between appearance and reality are not totally realized. This was accomplished by Shakespeare's maturing comic style as he begins to recognize all the varying aspects presented by the ploy of mistaken identity."
Our piece is not about identical characters, we have chosen to go with two contrasting characters; one who is deeply unhappy with his life and the other who is deluded by her appearance and because of that learns a massive moral message of 'Appreciation' when their identities are switched. From comedy of Errors we have taken a lot of comedic features as well as a constant confusion and scattered scenes.
This is presented in our Waiting Room Scene when all havoc breaks loose when Sophie smith has an appointment and Danny and Brittany face up to one another debating who is who. we then used mirroring to show the transformation becoming more apparent to the audience and from Sophie Smith to Horatio Frasier.
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