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The Compleat
Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield November 28 - December 20, 1997 It's a wildly funny evening as three actors set out to perform ALL of Shakespeare's plays (abridged, of course). The original production at CST was so enthusiastically received that the show was revived the following season after our move to Stage Center. Here's what the critics said of the play... "...embodies one of comedy's most essential impulses: the adolescent urge to take a baseball bat to the culturally revered. A mix of pratfalls, puns, willful misreadings of names and dialogue, clunky female impersonations, clean-cut ribaldry, and broad burlesque. The gung-ho vitality is impossible to resist. The conversion of the histories into a football game is very funny. So is a rap version of OTHELLO. HAMLET truly soars and allows the actors to come into their own as manic clowns. At its giddiest, its tone recalls the fabled Bullwinkle cartoon shows." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times "This irreverent deconstruction of Shakepeare's work makes a dilly of poor Willy. A fantasia of zany energy that throws together Monty Python-ish drag and Mel Brook-ish anything-for-a-laugh gags." - Michael Musto, New York Daily News
Shakespeare is the world's greatest playwright to make fun of. We do so only with the greatest respect for his writing, for the craft of live theatre and for anyone who wears tights willingly. I can only hope you, the audience will share our ecstasy in the power, the wonder, the poetry and the downright funkiness of the dude we call the Bard. Peace, love and FREE WILLY! ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
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