JUNE 2007
FREE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK

By William Shakespeare
Directed by J. Clark Nicholson

CREW

CAST

Sean Adams
Antipholus of Syracuse

Sean McCornack
Antipholus of Ephesus

Amber Mann
Dromio of Syracuse

Bill D'Agostino
Dromio of Ephesus

Tara Bradway
Adriana

Kendy Gable
Luciana

Alexis Dow
Aemillia/Courtesan

Rob Kopko
Aegeon

Kyle M. Thatcher
Angelo

Richard Johnson
Duke Solinus

Kent McNeillie
Balthasar/Dr. Pinch/Second Merchant

Jeannine Snyder
Luce

Ryan Rash
Gaoler

Emily Gray
First Merchant

Lee Ann Hoover
Servant

The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's first play, and by far one of his most farcical. We had a record-breaking year in terms of attendance, over 3000 people attended the show!

The Comedy of Errors follows identical twins (both called Antipholus) with identical manservants (both called Dromio), separated in infancy by outrageous circumstances. One Antipholus now lives with his Dromio, his wife Adriana and her sister Luciana in Ephesus, while the other pair has just arrived from Syracuse. A romp of mistaken identity and misunderstandings ensue, resulting in a reunion of separated twins and their parents.

The play's resolution is so complete and its comedy is so light and frothy that it seems Hollywood-esque, which inspired Nicholson to set the film in the beginning of the silent film era.

“The spirit of the play is in keeping with those classic comedies, like Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton,” says Nicholson, “it's a true situation comedy, a celebration of a ridiculous situation. I feel that The Comedy of Errors is a direct ancestor of that type of humor.”