Reduced Shakespeare Company Tour Complete Works

All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! Now revised for 2013 with the same recycled jokes – just put in a different order.
An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre.

Audiences in the North West can now join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a three-man comedy troupe that takes long, serious subjects and reduces them to short, sharp comedies. Since 1981, they have created eight stage shows, two television specials, several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces .

The company’s first three shows, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Complete History of America (abridged) and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) enjoyed a nine-year run at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. Not only were they London’s longest-running comedies, but at one point the Reduced Shakespeare Company had more shows running in the West End than Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The reduced version of the Bard classics is at the Floral Pavilion on 7 April and also stops at The Lowry (21 April) and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick (23 April).