Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, will present a workshop on improvisational and physical comedy from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. There is no cost, but seating is limited to 25 people and participants must preregister online at griff.vn/ImprovRSC.
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 Abridgment” have created nine 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 off-Broadway, at the White House, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, London’s West End, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre and Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs Festival, as well as performances in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, Singapore and Bermuda, plus countless civic and university venues throughout the USA, the UK, and Europe.
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.
Missouri Western will present a production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” Dec. 10-13 in the Kemper Recital Hall as part of the 2015-2016 Theatre Season.
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