It’s a production filled with zany, creative energy.

Director Aaron Posner uses almost every tool in his bag of tricks to make this play not just zip along, but crackle with energy and wit.

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Folger’s The Comedy of Errors plays out like a symphony of slapstick.

Though Henry VIII isn’t a particularly common Shakespearean work to be staged by local theaters, it is still likely that many audience members are already familiar with the king’s story. Thanks to pop cultural influences ranging from “The Tudors” to The Other Boleyn Girl, the machinations of the mercurial king are pretty well-known, even if some people have received their history lesson from Scarlett Johansson rather than the Bard.

The cast of Folger’s Much Ado About Nothing. Does director Timothy Douglas’s choice to set Folger’s production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing during the D.C. Caribbean Carnival feel arbitrary? Sure. Does it matter? Not entirely. The setting, while not really transforming this production of the classic tale of bickering lovers into something new, awards a carefree, colorful spirit to the proceedings. The closing wedding scene is visually brought to life with bright, feathered…