The Comedy of Errors Play by William Shakespeare (90 min adaptation)

Skyridge High School opened in 2016 and has quickly become one of the top theatre schools in the state, winning the Utah High School Shakespeare competition twice and the UHSAA State Championship three times. Come and see their first performance of the year.

The Comedy of Errors begins with Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse, sailing home with his wife, their identical twin sons (both named Antipholus), and the identical twin boys (both named Dromio) that Egeon bought as servants for his sons. Egeon thought there was going to be a storm and panicked. So the crew panicked and abandoned ship, leaving Egeon, one son and his servant tied to one mast, and his wife, the other son and his servant tied to the other.

But no storm came. In calm seas, with no one at the helm, the boat drifted into a rock and was split in two. And so was the family.

Fast forward to thirty-three years later, and the stage is set for the series of “comedic errors” which mount throughout the play. As the situation grows increasingly bewildering, everyone becomes certain that everyone else is totally mad.