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Mon 5 to Wed 7 November at 8pm
All the Great Books(abridged)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Tickets: Mon €12, Tues & Wed €15
Friends Personal 3 for 2, Couples 4 for 2, Business 6 for 3
“Literature's greatest hits condensed into a 90-minute roller-coaster ride of hilarity.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Little Dickens. A Short Longfellow. Reduced Proust... All the Great Books. Less is More.
The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement unleash a brand-new comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. America's best loved comedy troupe takes you on a ninety-eight minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the World's Great Books.
Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of the RSC zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school.
The RSC are officially London's longest-running comedy troupe, and have broken box-office records at the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre.
What are you waiting for? Tempus fugit! Reductio ad absurdum.
"Raucously funny! Inspired, crazed ridiculousness!" Buffalo News
"The bouncy threesome deliver a physically boisterous brand of comedy. Laugh out loud hilarious." Washington City Paper
"An unpredictable and engaging good time. Multi-level humor with an intelligent undercurrent - a kind of adult Muppet Show meets The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Buffalo Rising
"Brilliant, surreal comedy. Street buskers for educated grown-ups. Who knew Homer was so funny? Not Simpson - the other one." Christopher Rawson - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged)
Written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
Additional Material by Matthew Croke and Michael J. Faulkner
THE SYLLABUS
1984
The Aeneid
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Beowulf
The Bible
Brave New World
Bridges of Madison County
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
A Christmas Carol
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Das Capital
David Copperfield
Death in Venice
Dianetics
Diary of Anne Frank
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Fahrenheit 451
Fathers and Sons
The Feminine Mystique
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Green Eggs and Ham
Harry Potter
Heart of Darkness
Hound of the Baskervilles
Huckleberry Finn
Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Idiot
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Interpretation of Dreams
The Invisible Man
Jane Eyre
Jaws
Leaves of Grass
Little Women
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Metamorphosis
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
Oliver Twist
On The Road
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Origin of Species
Orlando
Paradise Lost
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Plato's Republic
Pride and Prejudice
Remembrance of Things Past
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
Silas Marner
Silent Spring
Sons and Lovers
The Sound and the Fury
The Story of Genji
A Tale of Two Cities
Tao Te Ching
TekWar
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
Thus Spake Zarathustra
To Kill A Mockingbird
To The Lighthouse
Treasure Island
Ulysses
Valley of the Dolls
Walden
War and Peace
White Fang
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights