Reduced Shakespeare Company opens 2018-19 Secrest Artists Series
William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) is the literary Holy Grail: an actual manuscript in Shakespeare’s own hand showing all his most famous characters and familiar speeches in a brand-new story.
But because it is one hundred hours long and contains multiple unwieldy storylines, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has decided, as a public service, to abridge it down to a brief and palatable ninety minutes and perform the world premiere of this lost masterpiece.
Called “A breathlessly irreverent and pun-filled romp!” by the Washington Post, the production proposes that Shakespeare had written a recently-discovered rough draft of all his plays that presents his most famous characters interacting comically onstage together. Theatrical zaniness? Yea, verily.
Veteran performers Off-Broadway, at the White House, the John F. Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, this three-man group of Shakespearean pranksters will present their most recent production on Thursday, September 20, in Brendle Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
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