The Reduced Shakespeare Company

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The
Complete
Works of William

SHAKESPEARE

(abridged) [revised]

Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess
Winfield, with additional material by Reed Martin
Directed by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

Saturday
April 27, 2019
7:30 p.m.

Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way
through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in
one wild and memorable ride!

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a reduced historyA Reduced History

Since its pass-the-hat origins in 1981, the Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Sweden (in

Reduced Shakespeare Company has created ten world- Swedish!). And in 2011, the world premiere of The Ultimate

renowned stage shows, two television specials, several Christmas Show (abridged) became Merrimack Repertory

failed TV pilots, and numerous radio pieces, all of which Theatre’s best-selling holiday show ever, and the third-best-

have been seen, performed, and heard the world over. The selling show in MRT’s history.

company's stops have included the White House, off- For TV, the RSC compressed the first five seasons of Lost
Broadway, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, London's
into a ten-minute film called Lost Reduced, and was a
West End, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Repertory
Jeopardy! category in the 2005 and 2006 Tournaments of
Theatre and Montreal's famed Just For Laughs Festival, as
Champions. They wrote and starred in The Ring Reduced, a
well as performances in Israel, Australia, New Zealand,
half-hour version of Wagner's Ring Cycle for Channel 4
Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, Singapore and Bermuda, plus
(UK), and reduced the Edinburgh Festival for BBC and the
countless civic and university venues
soap opera Glenroe for RTE Ireland. Shakespeare
throughout the USA, the UK, and Europe.
NOW PLAYING! (abridged) aired on PBS and is
The RSC’s first three shows - The available on DVD, as is
America (abridged).
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged), The Complete History of For National Public
America (abridged), and The Bible: The Radio, the RSC has been
Complete Word of God (abridged) - ran
heard on All Things
for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in
Considered, Weekend Edition,
Piccadilly Circus as London’s longest-
Talk of the Nation, Day to Day,
running comedies. For years the RSC
West Coast Live, and To The
had more shows running in the West
Best of Our Knowledge. The
End than Andrew Lloyd Webber.
BBC World Service
They were also funnier.
commissioned the six-part
In 2016, in honor of its 35th
Reduced Shakespeare Radio

anniversary and the 400th Show. The Reduced Shakespeare

anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Company Christmas was heard on

the RSC premiered its 10th stage ReducFerdeSeheavkeeryspweaereek.!com Public Radio International.
show William Shakespeare’s
Long Lost First Play (abridged) The RSC won the prestigious
at the Folger Shakespeare Shorty Award in New York City and
Theatre in Washington DC. And
in 2013, the RSC premiered the the Delft Audience Award in Holland.
subject it was born to reduce - They’ve also been nominated for an
Olivier Award in London, two Helen
The Complete History of Comedy Hayes Awards in Washington, DC, and
the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
(abridged) - to critical and commercial acclaim at Award.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

The “Bad Boys of Abridgment” have also applied RSC scripts are published in the US and UK, and

their fast, funny and physical approach to World History in translated into over a dozen languages.
Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged)
[original title: The Complete Millennium Musical The RSC also creates unique entertainments for
(abridged)], which toured simultaneously in the US, UK
and Australia); Athletics in The Complete World of Sports corporate events, working with such companies as Sky-TV,
(abridged), which played in London during the 2012 Time Magazine, Motorola, and Rotary International.
Olympics; Literature in All the Great Books (abridged);
and the Movies in Completely Hollywood (abridged), which RSC Books include Pop-Up Shakespeare (illustrated by
skewers the 197 greatest films of all time.
Jennie Maizels), the irreverent reference book Reduced
RSC shows have received critical acclaim Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-
Impaired (abridged), and the comic memoir How The Bible
across the US, UK, Belgium, Holland, Hong Kong, and Changed Our Lives (Mostly For The Better).
Barbados, and played to packed houses at the Kennedy
Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, San Diego Repertory And the RSC Podcast, a free 20-minute audio glimpse
Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Seattle’s ACT
of life backstage and on the road, is available every week at
iTunes and www.reducedshakespeare.com.

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The Complete Works of

William Shakespeare
(abridged) [revised]
by
Adam Long, Daniel Singer, & Jess Winfield
Additional Material by Reed Martin Revisions by Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield

Starring

Dominic Conti Michael Faulkner
Michael Perez

Directed by
Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor

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the complete works of william shakespeare

The Tragedies The Histories
Titus Andronicus King John
Romeo and Juliet Richard II
Julius Caesar Henry IV, Part 1
Troilus and Cressida Henry IV, Part 2
Othello Henry V
King Lear Henry VI, Part 1
Macbeth Henry VI, Part 2
Antony and Cleopatra Henry VI, Part 3
Timon of Athens Richard III
Coriolanus Henry VIII
Hamlet

The Comedies The Poetry
Love’s Labour ’s Lost Sonnets
Comedy of Errors A Lover’s Complaint
The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Rape of Lucrece
The Merchant of Venice Venus and Adonis
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
All’s Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Pericles*
Cymbeline*
The Winter’s Tale*

*Sometimes classified separately as
‘Romances’, we have accounted these
plays among the Comedies due to their
uneven poetic value, unbelievable plot
lines, shallow characterizations and
juvenile themes. They are among the
Bard’s greatest works.

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production staff cont...

Square Garden, as well as in 11 foreign countries. He toured for two years as a clown/
assistant ringmaster with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus. Reed has written for
the BBC, National Public Radio, TBS, Britain’s Channel Four, RTE Ireland, Public Radio
International, Sky TV UK, the Washington Post, and Vogue magazine. Reed’s work has
been nominated for an Olivier Award in London, a Helen Hayes Award in Wash-ington,
DC, and a San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critic’s Circle Award. He lives in Northern
California with his wife and two sons, all three of whom are much funnier than he is.

Elaine Randolph (Stage Manager) Credits include stage management (compulsive) and
lighting design (creative) in theater, music, and dance, for the Kennedy Center, Walnut
Street Theater, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, among many others. Recent projects include
Barbara Cook in Concert, The International Ballet Festival, and The Sondheim Celebration.
Favorite projects include: Quilters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, Pump Boys &
Dinettes, Radio Gals, A Tuna Christmas, Forever Plaid, and A Christmas Carol.

Daniel Singer (Co-Author, RSC Founder) has been a theatrical impresario from the
moment he looked up ‘impresario’ in the dictionary. Upon his return from studying
“proper dramatic technique” in London, he became a director at the original Renaissance
Pleasure Faire, where he founded the subversive Reduced Shakespeare Company. In
1989 Daniel hung up his doublet-and-hose to design theme park attractions at Walt
Disney Imagineering, and became a freelance designer, writer and event producer in Los
Angeles. His new hit comedy A Perfect Likeness chronicles Lewis Carroll’s (fictitious)
attempt to get his literary hero Charles Dickens to pose for a photograph in 1866 Oxford.
Coming soon to a theater near you!

Erin Sweeney (Wardrobe) is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in
Women and Gender Studies (she’s in it for the money and job security) and has completed
a fellowship in stage management with the American Conservatory Theater. After several
forays out into the surrounding world, she is so, so happy to be back working in theater.
Once, in an attempt to be helpful, Erin purchased a soccer ball, which has directly led to
her getting to live out her dreams of working for and touring with the RSC!

Austin Tichenor (Co-Director) is a fifth-generation San Franciscan born on the 54th
anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake, which makes him older than he looks but short for his
weight. He co-created nine RSC stage shows, Pop-Up Shakespeare (illustrated by Jennie
Maizels) and the irreverent reference book Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for
the Attention-Impaired (abridged), and blogs monthly for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Numerous TV gigs include guest starring roles on 24, Felicity, Gilmore Girls, The X-Files,
West Wing (and shows like them) and he recently directed Twelfth Night for the Cincinnati
Shakespeare Company. Find him on Twitter @austintichenor.

Jess Winfield (Co-Author, Founding Member) performed with the RSC from its ’81
founding until ‘92, when he realized he’d played Hamlet more times than Gielgud and
Olivier combined and suddenly felt very old. He left to write and produce cartoons for
Disney, which made him feel young again -- until he’d been there for ten years, at which
point he felt old again. He left Disney to write My Name Is Will -- A Novel of Sex, Drugs,
and Shakespeare, which made Jess feel young again; but then he and Daniel Singer
revised the Complete Works for its 20th anniversary and directed it in the West End,
which made him feel old again. He now lives in Hollywood with his wife (and original RSC
costume goddess) Sa. www.jesswinfield.com
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additional credits

Additional Credits

General Manager..........................................................................................................................................Jane Martin
Company Manager ........................................................................................................................................Alli Bostedt
Stage Manager ......................................................................................................................................Elaine Randolph
Wardrobe Supervisor .................................................................................................................................Erin Sweeney
Set Design.....................................................................................................................................................S. L. Wellen
Props & Costumes .........................Susan Brooks, Nicole Donery, Dancing Barefoot Productions, CMC & Design
U.S. Tour Direction ............................................................................................................Baylin Artists Management
Legal Counsel.........................................................................................................................Sharon Colchamiro, Esq.
Company Founder ....................................................................................................................................Daniel Singer

For their contributions to the development of the script, the Authors wish to thank:
Dan McLaughlin, Mark Sellin, David Springhorn, Jack Tate, Kevin Emery, Sa Thomson and William Shakespeare.

Special thanks to Greg Moore.

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