Sandra Heinsch, Walter Kuntner, Robert Rollinger (eds)Livre Rare Book
All the Great Books abridged
2005réf. 65599New York: Broadway Play Publishing 2005. Reprint. Third printing 2006. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Title page signed by Reed Austin and Matt Rippy. 12 99 1 pages. Together with a Kennedy Center Playbill and ticket stub for a performance of "The Complete World of Sports" each signed by all three and an unsigned Kennedy Center parking stub. from the web: The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a three-man comedy troupe that takes long serious subjects and reduces them to short sharp comedies. The Bad Boys of Abridgement have created seven stage shows two television specials several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces all of which have been performed seen and heard the world over. Since its 1981 origins as a pass-the-hat act in California the Reduced Shakespeare Company has created seven stage shows two television specials several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces all of which have been performed seen and heard the world over. The company s itinerary has included stops at the White House the Kennedy Center Lincoln Center London s West End Seattle Repertory Theatre American Repertory Theatre and Montreal s Just For Laughs Festival as well as performances in Israel Australia New Zealand Hong Kong Japan Malta Belgium The Netherlands Singapore and Bermuda plus countless civic and university venues throughout the USA Great Britain and Ireland. 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 ran for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. They were London s longest-running comedies and the RSC had more shows running in the West End than Andrew Lloyd Webber. They were also funnier. The Bad Boys of Abridgment unveiled a brand-new show in 2010: The Complete World of Sports abridged which reduces every sport ever played on every continent in the entire history of the world. It s got balls. They also condensed literature into a 90-minute roller-coaster ride in All The Great Books abridged which has played to great acclaim at the Kennedy Center Pittsburgh Public Theatre San Diego Repertory Theatre Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Seattle s ACT Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival as well as Great Britain Holland Ireland and Sweden in Swedish! . They also applied their fast funny and physical approach to World History in Western Civilization: The Complete Musical abridged original title: The Complete Millennium Musical abridged which toured simultaneously in the US UK and Australia and the Movies in Completely Hollywood abridged which skewers the 197 greatest films of all time and has received critical acclaim across the US UK Belgium Holland Hong Kong and Barbados. For television the RSC compressed the first five seasons of Lost into a ten-minute film called Lost Reduced and was a Jeopardy! category in the 2005 and 2006 Tournaments of Champions. They wrote and starred in The Ring Reduced a half-hour version of Wagner s Ring Cycle for Channel 4 UK and reduced the Edinburgh Festival for BBC and the soap opera Glenroe for RTE Ireland. Shakespeare abridged aired on PBS and is available on DVD as is America abridged. Numerous other TV appearances include NBC s Today Show CBS Sunday Morning Entertainment Tonight CNN s Showbiz This Week and New Zealand s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune they lost. For National Public Radio the RSC has been heard on All Things Considered Weekend Edition Talk of the Nation Day to Day West Coast Live and To The Best of Our Knowledge. The BBC World Service commissioned the six-part Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show. The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas was heard on Public Radio International. RSC scripts are published in the US and UK and translated into over a dozen languages. The Radio Show RSC Christmas and Millennium Musical abridged are all available on CD and from iTunes. The RSC won the prestigious Shorty Award and has been nominated for an Olivier Award in London two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington DC the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and several podcast awards. RSC scripts are published in the US and UK and translated into over a dozen languages. The RSC Radio Show RSC. Broadway Play Publishing paperback
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