{"id":5429,"date":"2018-05-04T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:17:48","slug":"comedy-of-errors-comes-to-umpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/05\/04\/comedy-of-errors-comes-to-umpi\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy of Errors Comes to UMPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The University of Maine at Presque Isle had the pleasure of a performance from the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The troupe came to UMPI to perform the comedy play \u201cA Comedy of Errors.\u201d The theater group also did a workshop with elementary school children about the play.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>As the educational touring wing of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Shakespeare LIVE! productions are hailed as innovative, visually stunning and accessible to students. While the texts are abridged, the troupe prides itself on keeping Shakespeare\u2019s language intact and delivering performances that are dynamic and appealing, exciting and engaging and witty and imaginative. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare\u2019s beloved comedies and is best experienced as the playwright intended&#8211;live on stage<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>In this particular Shakespeare comedy, two sets of identical twins, mistaken identities, colorful characters and a madcap chase sequence conspire to make this caper a thrill for students and teachers alike. The Shakespeare Theatre\u2019s director of education, Brian B. Crowe, directed \u201cA Comedy of Errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Shakespeare LIVE! is supported by Shakespeare in American Communities, a national program of The National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest. In 2004, Shakespeare LIVE! was selected as one of 22 professional theater companies nationwide to participate in the Shakespeare in American Communities: Shakespeare for a New Generation program, bringing high-quality, professional productions of Shakespeare\u2019s plays to thousands of middle- and high-school students in underserved schools across the United States. For more information about Shakespeare for a New Generation, please visit ShakespeareInAmericanCommunities.org.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The University of Maine at Presque Isle had the pleasure of a performance from the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The troupe came to UMPI to perform the comedy play \u201cA Comedy of Errors.\u201d The theater group also did a workshop with elementary school children about the play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}