It was around halfway through the Friday showing of “A Servant of Two Masters,” when a sandwich — average size, brown bread (perhaps whole wheat?), enclosed in a zipped plastic bag — flew from an audience member’s hand and landed upon the stage of the Alan Harvey Theater. To the audience’s delight, the lead character Truffaldino, who was played by senior Tyler Ellis, picked up the sandwich, inquired whether it contained peanuts and promptly tossed it to the wayside when he found it did. He was allergic to peanuts, he said.

“That was pretty impromptu,” audience member freshman Georgia Lichty said at intermission.

Rife with this kind of improvisatory audience interaction as well as suggestive slapstick humor, the Friday performance of the comedy “A Servant of Two Masters” sparked laughter, cheers and a standing ovation from its audience. The show also occurred Thursday evening and will be performed tonight and tomorrow night, both at 7:30 p.m.

“I thought it was just going to be a normal play,” audience member freshman Emily Yu said. “I didn’t know it was going to be this funny.”

Written by Carlo Goldoni in 1746 and adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young, the plot centers around Truffaldino, who is, indeed, a servant of two masters. The first is Beatrice (junior Char Nakashima-Conway), who disguises herself as a male fiancee to collect the dowry that she needs to prove her real fiancee’s innocence. Then, Truffaldino pledges himself to Beatrice’s real fiancee Florindo (senior Yuval Wolf), who has been accused of killing Beatrice’s brother and escapes to the same inn in which the play takes place.

While bouncing back and forth between his two masters, Truffaldino also attempts to woo housemaid Smeraldina (junior Nina Adarkar).

What stands out about the play to Advanced Acting member junior Leah Kochendoerfer, the Makeup and Wig Manager, is the fact that it changes every night because of the improvisational opportunities within it.

“They just add something different to the line every night: something funnier, something that fits to the moment,” Kochendoerfer said.

The cast members were dressed in corsets and britches. But they also danced to songs like Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” and even juggled to a-ha’s “Take On Me.”

The play itself was in the Commedia dell’Arte style, which, according to the program, was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and features “physical comedic bits, improvisation, musical interludes, and asides.” But it also featured less-than-subtle references to pop culture and past PHS productions.

“There are modern-esque parts in it,” Lichty said.

Adarkar, who played Smeraldina, said she loved the audience’s energy.

“We were kind of worried that we’d lose energy because it was our second show,” Adarkar said.

At this point, Adarkar has finally embraced having to perform and interact with the audience by herself at times, she said.

“That was the scariest part at first,” Adarkar said. “I feel like I’ve actually gotten more confident.”

Now, the scene in which she sings “You and I” and strums the ukulele while meandering between seated audience members is her favorite personal performance moment.

“[Even with] all the seniors that I was scared of in the audience, I just went for it,” Adarkar said. “I was like, ‘I’m touching you right now and it’s totally okay.’”

To potential audience members, Lichty had one final piece of advice.

“If you want to interact, bring food,” Lichty said.

Complete cast list:

Nina Adarkar (Smeraldina)

Stuart Ashford (Giovanni)

Cade Becker (Sylvio)

Landon Campbell (Pantalone)

Addie Christensen (Clarice)

Josef Crombie Presberg (Giovanni)

Elie Docter (Brighella)

Tyler Ellis (Truffaldino)

Char Nakashima-Conway (Beatrice)

Addie Perkins (Dottore)

Akshai Wadhwani (Porter Jim)

Yuval Wolf (Florindo)