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16 ‘Lleno de Tejanidad’: Staging a Bilingual Comedy of Errors in Central Texas
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Published:June 2021
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Abstract
This chapter chronicles efforts to stage a bilingual adaptation of The Comedy of Errors on the campus of Texas State University. The conceit behind this production was that all the characters from Syracuse would speak English and all those from Ephesus would speak Spanish. The hope was that the, resulting linguistic confusion would accentuate the farcical misunderstandings at the center of this play. On a deeper level, this bilingual strategy amplified the play’s theme of the quest for identity in a twenty-first-century America where so many identities are divided between two languages and two cultures. The setting of The Comedy of Errors, where two city-states have been involved in a low-level conflict for decades, also eerily recalls the situation that has long existed between the United States and Cuba. The production was first mounted in 2015 and restaged in 2017. The Texas State campus had been marred by expressions of racist propaganda following the election of Donald Trump.
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