Project 7: The Bard

For this assignment, we had to jump into a 'Pseudonym role' from an earlier project - (Jon Mess), and illustrate a program cover for one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions. 

I chose to do "The Comedy of Errors". I felt like I captured the spirit of the play by using theater masks and making one angry and one sad to express the wild mishaps that happened throughout the play. I used a soft-pastel medium to give off the messy characteristic of my Pseudonym. For the typography, I turned the "r" the other way in the word "Errors"to express the 'errors' or mishaps throughout the story.

Here is a short synopsis of the story: The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession.