Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard
"This 20-year-old play feels as if it has had the dust blown off"
"Wildly imaginative, thoroughly affectionate and, above all, infectiously fun. If you never understood or know naff all about Shakespeare, this is still the perfect place not to learn."
Sharon Lougher, Metro
"wig-flinging, wise-cracking, twinkle-toed mayhem"
"The show is neither aged nor wearied by its success; its imperturbably laid-back West Coast humour still takes the manic edge of the high-speed skits it binds together."
"They’re slam-dunking the parodies with crowd-pleasing ease"
"Disgracefully funny"
"Hilarious"
"This tirelessly funny and accessible comedy show"
Caroline McGinn, Time Out
"I... came out beaming at the low bardolotry of it all."
"If you still like plenty of ham in your Hamlet I'd say, get thee to a performance!"
Roger Foss, Whatsonstage.com, 2 June 2007
A new production of fast-paced Shakespearean romp The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) comes to the Arts theatre this summer.
The irreverent show became the capital’s longest running comedy on its last foray into London, when it ran at the Criterion from 1996-2005. Condensing all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays into one 97-minute show, The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) includes Hamlet performed forwards, backwards and sideways, Titus Andronicus as a TV cookery programme, a rap version of Othello and all 16 tragedies shaped into the distinctly more slimline Four Weddings And A Transvestite.
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) was originally created by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. This new production is being put together by producer Mark Goucher, with Act Productionsand Wimpole Theatre.
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