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Ghostlight Productions founders Jonathan and Rachel Strayer rehearse their roles as Antipholus of Syracuse and Adriana in William Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ directed by Jeremy Kemmerer.

From left, Max Earl and George Conrad portray Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse, respectively, in Ghostlight Productions’ upcoming presentation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors.’

Christa Mallecoccio as a clown, Mark Mallecoccio as Aegeon and EJ Leeson as a clown rehearse a scene in Ghostlight Productions’ presentation of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ by William Shakespeare.

Laura Moore plays the role of Madame Pinch in Ghostlight Productions’ presentation of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ by William Shakespeare.

Max Earl does a bit of juggling for his role as Dromio of Ephesus in the upcoming Ghostlight Productions presentation of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ by William Shakespeare.

Take a pair of twin brothers, separate them at birth and let them grow up with the same first name. Ditto for their two servants.

Keep both sets of twins apart until Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio travel to Ephesus and start to run into people who are well-acquainted with Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant Dromio. Then let the mayhem ensue.

To Jeremy Zimmerman of Clarks Summit, who is directing “The Comedy of Errors” for Ghostlight Productions, a circus seemed like the perfect setting for Shakespeare’s wild and crazy farce.

“I was thinking about the lines the characters say,” Zimmerman said. “Antipholus of Syracuse looks around this town where he’s never been before but people seem to know him, and he says it’s filled with ‘nimble jugglers’ and ‘soul-killing witches.’ Later, he talks about wandering through illusions. That got me thinking about illusions and things not being what they seem. I kept thinking of carnival and magic.”

So in this version, Antipholus of Syracuse and his brother are both lion tamers dressed in leopard-print and carrying whips.

“Their servants both like to crack a joke at inappropriate times, and they catch the end of those whips when they misbehave,” said Rachel Strayer, a Ghostlight Productions co-founder who portrays Adriana, wife of Antipholus of Ephesus.

Adriana is “what we call one of ‘the twirly girls,’ ” Strayer said. “She and her sister, Luciana, and two other circus performers twirl flags.”

Twirly girl Adriana will be distressed that the man she mistakes for her husband seems to prefer her sister — although that development does hint at an eventual happy ending for several people.

The servants appear as clowns, Strayer said, and so do the police who will arrive to arrest Antipholus of Ephesus when he is accused of taking a hat from a hat maker and not paying for it. Of course, Antipholus of Syracuse is the one with the hat, but “Antipholus of Ephesus bears the brunt of everything.

“They’re tackling him and trying to catch him with hoops. They think he’s possessed,” Strayer said.

While the show is “very over-the-top and big and fun,” Strayer said, “we do a lot of work to make the characters believable. They have real emotions at the bottom of their over-the-top actions.”

Rachel Strayer, who co-founded the troupe with her husband, Jonathan, said this is Ghostlight Productions’ seventh annual outdoor Shakespeare show.

It’s a light-hearted show and, after producing “Macbeth” in 2014, Zimmerman said, he’s especially enjoying “the complete change and contrast to what we did last year.