The Theater Department of Community High School performed The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare’s brilliant farce of mistaken identities and fabulous wordplay. The actors and staff provided us with two wonderfully funny nights and a play we are not soon to forget.
Based on an ancient Roman comedy, Plautus’ Menaechmi, The Comedy of Errors begins in the port city of Ephesus, where a Syracusan merchant, Egeon, has accidently come ashore. The Duke of Ephesus notes laws prohibit Syracusans from entering Ephesus on the penalty of death. Egeon shares his search for his lost son Antipholus and his servant Dromio. Seven years earlier Antipholus set out to find his brother and mother both lost in a shipwreck. Taking pity on Egeon, the Duke offers the old man 24 hours to find a ransom for his life or it will be forfeit. Might there be a second Antipholus roaming Ephesus? Worse, could there be a second Dromio? Madness and mayhem ensues.
Spring 2024 Theater Production of “The Comedy of Errors”
The Theater Department of Community High School performed The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare’s brilliant farce of mistaken identities and fabulous wordplay. The actors and staff provided us with two wonderfully funny nights and a play we are not soon to forget.
Based on an ancient Roman comedy, Plautus’ Menaechmi, The Comedy of Errors begins in the port city of Ephesus, where a Syracusan merchant, Egeon, has accidently come ashore. The Duke of Ephesus notes laws prohibit Syracusans from entering Ephesus on the penalty of death. Egeon shares his search for his lost son Antipholus and his servant Dromio. Seven years earlier Antipholus set out to find his brother and mother both lost in a shipwreck. Taking pity on Egeon, the Duke offers the old man 24 hours to find a ransom for his life or it will be forfeit. Might there be a second Antipholus roaming Ephesus? Worse, could there be a second Dromio? Madness and mayhem ensues.