A LAMDA performance of Shakespeare at Bowness has hit the headlines this week because of the bawdy nature of the interpretation.

The national newspapers have followed-up the Westmorland Gazette tale after ten members of Monday's audience walked-out because of a simulated sex scene.

We haven't got that, of course, but here's a flavour of Comedyof Errors in a Royal Shakespeare Company version from 1976 which was given a musical treatment by Trevor Nunn.

This scene: In Ephesus on "holiday", Antipholus (Roger Rees) and Dromio (Michael Williams) of Syracuse are unknowingly mistaken for their long lost twin brothers Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus by Adriana (Judi Dench), the denied and restless wife of Antipholus of Ephesus.

Adriana is convinced that her husband's attentions have been straying to the many licentious distractions in Ephesus, and is in desperate need of some attention herself. Upon seeing "him" in the square, she makes her move of determination to keep "her husband's" attentions where they should be...at home and on her.

Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity is never more funny than when in the hands of these brilliant artists. Other's in the scene: Adriana's sister, Luciana (Francesca Annis), and their house maid Luce (Susan Dury).

You can read about the controversy at Bowness in our general news section at http://www.getnoticedonline.co.uk/news/general-news/shakespeare-interperetation-too-bawdy-for-bowness-audience.html