Reduced Shakespear Company

[Shadow Man]

Has anybody seen a production from them?

And do they speak in modern tongue?

[jno]

American, if that's what you mean. They're hilarious.

[Shadow Man]

So do they do his complete works, or a selection each night with encores etc?

[jno]

they do all 37 plays every night, plus sonnets, but abridged. King Lear is covered in 34 seconds. Hamlet is done backwards. These guys are comedians so don't expect to be too depressed by Titus Andronicus, which they do as a cookery programme.

[curiosity]

They're fantastic, very very funny. They do the Bible as well, which I've yet to see.

[dundurn]

Everything is reduced to the bare essentials, but surprisingly little that you really need to know gets left out! A bit like "That's Entertainment" which reduced Hamlet to " where a ghost and a prince meet, and everyone ends as mincemeat" and just as much fun.

[delilahcat]

They are absolutely hilarious. As well as the Shakespeare and the Bible shows, they do one called 'All the great books' which reduced me to tears of laughter!

[jno]

I see from their website they also do a 20-minute version of the entire Star Wars saga, though that would still be too long for me.

[MrsJ1]

I've seen them do Hollywood - fantastic but dont sit in the front couple of rows unless you want to get picked on or get wet!!

[lorri24601]

i have seen them do all the great books and if that is anything to go by you should really enjoy it, very very funny