The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The play begins with the actors speaking to the audience about their love of Shakespeare. Their hope is that the audience are not Shakespearen scholars, because the cast is not completely confident in their knowledge of the Bard. Unfortunately, this hope is quickly dispelled when one audience member is clearly very well versed in even Shakespeare’s least known plays. (This audience member is a plant and soon joins the show.)

The cast begins with an eccentric version of Romeo & Juliet, followed by Titus Andronicus presented as a bloody (literally) cooking show. Othello is performed as a rap, all of Shakepeare’s Comedies are thrown together in a crazy amalgamation entitled The Comedy of Two Well-Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummer’s Twelfth Night in Winter. Or... Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as You Like It for Nothing….or…well you get the idea. After a quick reenactment of Macbeth and Julius Caesar, the