"...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
About the show...
Where else can you see Othello as a rap song, or King Lear as a football game, or Hamlet at supersonic speed—backwards? It could only be the riotously funny The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).
Three actors perform all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in a madcap style worthy of Groucho Marx.
Here's what the critics had to say:
Fst, fny, irrvrnt! It's a compleatly hilarious nt to be mssd parody guided by Shkspr's maxim: Brvty is the soul of wt.
---Elyse Sommer
CurtainUp
"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."
