100604 (June 4 - 13) BRSTF & RTC - THE COMPLETE WRKS OF WLLM SHKSPR (ABRIDGED)
Endstation Theatre Company
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The Endstation Theatre presents the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival production of
The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) - A co-production with Renaissance Theatre
June 4, 5, 11, 12 @ 8pm June 6, 13 @ 3pm at the Renaissance Theatre
General Admission.
Note: This show will run only two weekends but will include a Sunday matinee both weekends.
This hilarious play was originally produced by the Reduced Shakespeare Company at the Endinburgh Fringe Festival in 1987. This wonderful work has become one of the world's most popular shows and parodies the plays of William Shakespeare by performing all of his works with in the course of one evening. This will be a co-production with the Renaissance Theatre Company and will be performed at Renaissance's Downtown Lynchburg theatre.
All 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 97 minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) was London's longest-running comedy for 10 years. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "wildly funny" and by the Montreal Gazette as "the funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime."
Warning!: This show is a high-speed roller-coaster type condensation of all of Shakespeare's plays, and is not recommended for people with heart ailments, bladder problems, inner ear disorders and/or people inclined to motion sickness.
Presented by Endstation Theatre in conjunction with Renaissance Theatre.
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) 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." -- Ben Brantley, New York Daily News
"Fresh, energetic and funny. A wild and silly frolic." -- Pia Lindstrom, WNBC-TV
Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
Specifications
Will Call only
All tickets will be held at the performance location's ticket booth. Please check in at the booth upon arrival.
Please arrive on time:
Will Call tickets not retrieved by 10 minutes prior to showtime may be resold to waiting patrons.
For more information:
Please phone the Box Office at (434) 381-6537.
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