The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) - (Revised)
From: Sunday, 21st April 2013
To: Sunday, 21 April 2013
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Synopsis
All 37 plays in 120 minutes. The sixteen comedies are reduced to a single section and the histories are played as a ball game. For all those who hate Shakespeare here is a rapid run through the lot - for those that love him, well, indulge yourselves in this delightful evening!
Our Review:
22 April 2013
So the RSC has returned to the provinces? No, not that RSC but the RSC as in Reduced Shakespeare Company®.
Whereas recently it took the ROYAL Shakespeare Company a year to present all of the Bard’s works the REDUCED Shakespeare Company give you the whole lot in less than two hours! And that includes four versions of Hamlet and lots of facts and figures. Mind you, the information given should carry a health warning –‘don’t quote these in your GCSEs’.
In a show full of surprises it starts where it means to go on. An American academic quickly and amusingly dispenses with the mobile phone warnings and within seconds the audience is captured in the palm of his hands. For the next two hours three actors work their socks off to ensure the audience has a lot of fun – and it does!
How to describe the experience? An evening of mayhem, madness, unbelievable energy, silliness and more than a laugh a minute.
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Creative
Adam Long (Author)
Daniel Singer (Author)
Jess Winfield (Author)
Reed Martin (additional material) (Author)
Reduced Shakespeare Company (Company)
Newbury Productions LtdNewbury Productions (UK) Ltd (Producer)
York Theatre Royal (Producer)
Reed Martin (Director)
Austin Tichenor. (Director)
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