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REXBURG,
Idaho — The Brigham Young University-Idaho Department of Theatre will
present “Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare starting Oct.
20 in the Kirkham Arena Theatre.
The
play will run Oct. 20-23 and Oct. 26-30. Tickets are $6 for the public and
$1 for BYU-Idaho students. They may be purchased by calling the BYU-Idaho
Ticket Office at 496-2230 or online at www.byui.edu/tickets.
The
production provides endless comic confusions and mistaken identities when Antipholus of Syracuse, played by Brant Wadsworth, a
junior from Sugar City, and his slave, Dromio,
played by J.D. Taylor, a senior from Calgary, Alberta, arrive in Ephesus.
Unbeknown to them, their long-lost twin brothers, who are also named Antipholus and Dromio, played
by Justin Love, a freshman from Idaho Falls,
and Ben Parkes, a senior from Riverton, Utah,
are residents of the town.
Thought
to be Shakespeare’s first comedy, this farce provides absurd and
exaggerated situations that will delight audiences, says Hyrum Conrad, the
play’s director.
“It
isn’t a light comedy where everyone giggles in a place or two,”
Conrad said. “They will be cracking up and hooting and hollering.
That is exactly what Shakespeare intended when he wrote the play.”
Other
actors include Kami Townsend, a senior from
Pflugerville, Texas; Cam Blackman, a sophomore from Exeter, Calif.; Melissa
Woolf, a sophomore from Flower Mound, Texas;
Erika Ericksen, a senior from Carrollton, Texas; Chalise Ludlow, a senior from Rolla, Mo.; Sarah Jagger, a senior from Concord, Calif.; Laurel Drummond,
a freshman from Pleasanton, Calif.; Liz Whittaker, a freshman from Medford,
Ore.; Erica Powell, a freshman from Rexburg; Jared Fair, a senior from
Yakima, Wash.; Josh Oxborrow, a freshman from
Japan; Ryan Terry, a sophomore from Rexburg; Ryan Riedel, a freshman from
Houston, Texas; and Aaron Borg, a freshman from Burley.
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