WHS Theater Production Will be "Comedy of Errors"

Shakespeare returns to the Westborough High School auditorium this weekend in a way the audience might find unfamiliar.

The main characters certainly won't recognize each other until the end.

Westborough High School's Center Stage theater company performs "The Comedy of Errors," its first Shakespearean play in three years, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10, and may be purchased at the door.

The students' production of the play is set in the 1920s, Director Anne Slotnick said.

"I think (audience members are)  going to see Shakespeare in a way they're not expecting," she said.

"I think they're going to see a Shakespeare that's a lot more fun."

In the story, "basically, two sets of identical twins end up in the same place at the same time, and don't know it. Nobody knows, and there's two of each person," Slotnick explained.

The production includes 24 cast members, and 30 in the crew, she said.

"They've done a nice job of allowing it to be more modern," Slotnick said. 

"And they're allowing it to be fun. They're allowing it to be silly, to have that slapstick quality."