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Tom O'Reilly (left), Dan Tetreault and Eric Jordan provide comic relief in M&D Playhouse's production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," which opened Thursday, Nov. 2. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

CONWAY — William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” famously opens with the line: “If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.”

Spoken by the love sick Duke Orsino of Illyria (Andrew Brosnan), the line makes it seem that what is about to unfold is a melancholy love story, but that’s only part of it, as Shakespeare adds one of his favorite comedic devices: mistaken identity.

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Janette Kondrat and Julianne Brosnan star in M&D Playhouse's production of William Shakespeare's mistaken-indentity comedy "Twelfth Night." (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

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Rich Russo (foreground) and Tom O'Reilly and Dan Tetreault (background) star in M&D Playhouse's "Twelfth Night." (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

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Julianne Brosnan and Andrew Brosnan star in M&D Playhouse's production of William Shakespeare's mistaken-indentity comedy "Twelfth Night." (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)

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