THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We would be delighted to invite you to a special live performance celebrating 10 years of Immersive Telepresence in Theatre / Shakespeare Remote — an internationally recognised project that brings young performers together across countries, languages, and cultures.

Performed by students from Coventry University (UK) and L'Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic de les Illes Balears, Palma (Mallorca)

Shakespeare’s fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity will be performed bilingually in English and Catalan by a cast of 22 actors — 12 from Coventry and 10 from Palma — working together as a single international ensemble.

What makes this production distinctive is how it has been made. The entire show is rehearsed in just three weeks:

• Two weeks rehearsing online, using immersive telepresence studios that allow students in the UK and Mallorca to rehearse together live, in real time

• One intensive week rehearsing in Palma, bringing the full company together in the same space before open-air performances in Alcúdia and Palma de Mallorca

• The Coventry performances mark the final stage of this international journey and a celebration of ten years of the project

The telepresence project began in 2016 with a pilot collaboration between Coventry University and Tampere University in Finland. Since then, it has developed into a long-running international model for actor training and global collaboration, working with partners across the world, connecting dozens of cities, and involving hundreds of students.

The project has received multiple international awards, including the PIEoneer Award for Study Abroad and Exchange Experience of the Year (2025), The Guardian Award for Internationalisation (2021), three Reimagine Education Gold Awards for Arts & Humanities and Hybrid Education (2016 and 2018) and has also been widely cited in academic journals and books on drama education, digital pedagogy, and international learning. It is frequently referenced as an example of how technology can be used not to replace live theatre, but to extend rehearsal, collaboration, and creative exchange across borders.

For students, the experience is often transformative: performing in another language, collaborating with international peers they may not physically meet until the final week, and developing adaptability, confidence, and ensemble skills under intense creative pressure. For audiences, the result is energetic, funny, and immediate. This is Shakespeare played for clarity, pace, and shared understanding rather than reverence.

Each performance will be followed by a short Q&A with the cast, offering the opportunity to ask about the rehearsal process, bilingual performance, and what it is really like to create theatre across countries and cultures.

We hope you will be able to join us — not only to enjoy the production, but to help us celebrate a decade of innovation and the continuing creative partnership between Coventry University and ESADIB, Palma.