04/23/2026
In honor of William Shakespeare's 🍰birthday🍰, we're thrilled to announce this year's summer production: The Comedy of Errors!
In 2013, The Comedy of Errors was the first full-length Shakespeare production Shake ever staged, becoming the blueprint for the company's fast, fun, and physical style, where 5 actors play 15 parts in a slapstick farce of mistaken identity and shenanigans. Set in the port town of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his butler, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive at Ephesus, which, unknown to them, turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his butler, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession.
Lucky number 13 years later, Shake is restaging CoE using the tropes of commedia clowning, slapstick physical comedy, punnery, and puppetry; taking you on wild, fast-paced romp that proves why the play's title has become an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout."
Watch this space for cast announcements (featuring returning Shake faves) and our Arkansas and Western NY tour dates!
