"English class meets Monty Python." -The Washington Post "Literature's greatest hits condensed into a ninety-minute roller-coaster ride of hilarity." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Brilliant, surreal comedy. Street buskers for educated grown-ups. Who knew Homer was so funny? Not Simpson - the other one." -Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Very, very funny." -Arch Campbell, N B C-T V "Verbally dexterous and physically agile. The show darts from satire to silliness to sophisticated irreverence." -Ed Siegel, Boston Globe "Witty and wacky." -Veronica Lee, London Sunday Telegraph
"English class meets Monty Python." -The Washington Post "Literature's greatest hits condensed into a ninety-minute roller-coaster ride of hilarity." ...
..".Just as the company's members good-naturedly bash the Bard in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), so do they cheerfully run riot over five-hundred years of our country's history. During the manic, ninety-minute program... they] mine dozens of landmark events and trends for comic gold... Not only do they know how to give American history an irreverent boost, they actually turn it into something accessible and alive." Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post ..".THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA interprets the past as a breathlessly paced sequence of silly vaudeville sketches,...
..".Just as the company's members good-naturedly bash the Bard in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), so do they cheerfully run riot...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater ... the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare - Tinseltown America's "bad boys of abridgement" take on America's largest cultural and economic export (well, except for weapons) in this seriously silly show biz satire. Get your clapper boards ready as we rummage through the reels and flick through the films in this riotous carnival of the classics. Giving Hollywood more than just a nip and a tuck, they cut through the celluloid to condense the 186 greatest films in Hollywood's over 100-year history into a...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater ... the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare - Tinseltown America...
In this merciless but affectionate satire, The Reduced Shakespeare company sets its comic sights on the lunacy of sports. The result is a tour-de-farce of vaudevillian physical comedy that will delight every non-sports fan in the family. "It's a deceptively exhaustive tour, its intellectual rigor leavened by silliness of the first degree." -Variety "A comical analysis of sports' childish side. This] parody of E S P N's 'SportsCenter' ... is pitched directly and proudly at the juvenile in sports fans of all ages." -New York Times "A fast-moving and deeply funny farrago, a neo-vaudevillian...
In this merciless but affectionate satire, The Reduced Shakespeare company sets its comic sights on the lunacy of sports. The result is a tour-de-farc...
An affectionate, irreverent roller-coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment, tackling the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn't the word "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds? Whether you're Catholic or Atheist, Muslim or Jew, Protestant or Purple People Eater, you will be tickled by this romp through old-time religion. ..". There is no doubt about it, these three lads are in a league of their own when it comes to vivid originality in the show ... They have sublime moments of surreal theatricality ... Sly...
An affectionate, irreverent roller-coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment, tackling the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have nav...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately. The first stage adaptation was written in 1823, and since then countless film versions, parodies, and modern interpretations have changed the associations we have with the Frankenstein name. Shelley's novel offers many pleasures, but fulfilling the horror-movie expectations of the modern reader isn't one of them. This adaptation attempts to be faithful to Shelley's original themes, characters, mood, and literary sensibility while at the same time giving an audience a little bit more of what it...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately. The first stage adaptation was written in 1823, and ...
Kafka for kids? Is that a good idea? Fortunately, with a slight change in tone, it is. The fantastical elements of The Metamorphosis strike a chord with adolescents who are often experiencing their own struggles with changing bodies. DANCING ON THE CEILING is an expressionistic fairy-tale about identity and role expectations. It's scary, funny, and moving. "Austin Tichenor recognizes that children are intelligent discriminating patrons of the arts ... giving them last summer's daring and innovative DANCING ON THE CEILING ..." -Milford Cabinet, Milford, NH "Tichenor's belief in serious play...
Kafka for kids? Is that a good idea? Fortunately, with a slight change in tone, it is. The fantastical elements of The Metamorphosis strike a chord wi...
"In some ways, it's their funniest presentation yet... With a musical score that gives the script bite and zest, the three performers 'turn history inside out and upside down, cramming 1,000 facts into 90 minutes.' By the end they have given us a nonsensical but hilarious rendition of each major epoch." Andrew Warshaw, The Guardian
"Singing that 'history ain't what it used to be' the three-person ensemble put a deranged spin on the events of the past 1,000 years... Mixing broad physical humor with sly satire, the three sang, disco-danced and adopted phony accents and...
"In some ways, it's their funniest presentation yet... With a musical score that gives the script bite and zest, the three performers 'turn histor...
