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Article: Pittsburgh Public Theater piles on laughs in play about mistaken identity
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- October 11, 2007
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Ted Pappas is doing his best to see that people have as much fun
watching "The Comedy of Errors" as he's having while creating it.
Pappas, the Pittsburgh Public Theater's producing artistic
director, is also directing William Shakespeare's comedy, which
opens the company's 33rd season this week at the O'Reilly Theater,
Downtown.
"I love the play. ... It's his shortest, most accessible, most
understandable play," Pappas says. "The youthfulness of this play
appealed to me enormously."
It's a comedy of mistaken identity as not one, but two sets of
twins -- a pair of servants and their masters -- who were separated
in childhood turn up years later in the same town on the same day.
Compounding ...