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Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors Performed at PDS

Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications

Poughkeepsie, NY-For the fifth consecutive year, students at Poughkeepsie Day School are staging a playby William Shakespeare. This year's performance is A Comedy of Errors, one of the Bard's earliest and most accessible plays. It is a slapstick farce, tracing the confusions arising from two sets of identical (and identically-named) twins who, as is of the case in Shakespeare's comedies, are constantly mistaken for one another. According to the play's co-director, PDS English teacher Mike Foley, the play is a particularly "pleasurable introduction for younger students to Shakespeare's works." It is a culmination of a semester's worth of work by students in grades 9-12 through the school's central study program.

Performances are Friday and Saturday, December 12 and 13 at 7 pm and Sunday, December 14 at 2 pm in the school's James Earl Jones Theater. It is free and open to the public, although donations to the school's Theater Fund are welcome at the door. For more information, call 845-462-7600, ext. 110 or visit www.poughkeepsieday.org.

Poughkeepsie Day School, established in 1934, is the only pre-k through 12th school in the mid-Hudson Valley and currently enrolls 345 students from more than 48 communities in the mid-Hudson Valley.