The Reduced Shakespeare Company® Returns To Great Britain
It’s Apocalypse Now as the Reduced Shakespeare Company® return to Great Britain this autumn with their hit West End production of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged). Fun for the whole family the national tour kicks off in London at Stratford Circus on the 4th September and runs through until 30th November where the tour closes in Clacton-on-Sea.
The original “Bad Boys of Abridgement” bring their reductive sensibilities to this irreverent celebration of “the greatest story ever accepted as fact.” Written by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor, The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) is an affectionate roller coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment, and has been praised by the Sunday Times as “a slick, fast, very funny show…[featuring] skilled performers with immaculate sassy American timing.”
One of the most popular shows in the reduced repertoire of “the other RSC,” These three cultural guerillas tackle the great theological questions:
- Did Adam and Eve have navels?
- Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston?
- And why isn’t the word “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?
Directed by RSC veteran Matt Rippy, who’s well-known to UK audiences as an actor on such shows as Torchwood and movies such as Hellboy 2 , The Dark Knight and Beyond the Sea. Matt has been with the company since 1996 in various guises and shows as an actor, writer and director.
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) had its official world premiere at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC in 1995. There it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play.
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) ran at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in 1997. It later ran at the Criterion Theatre in the West End from 2003 to 2006.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company® has toured the world, performing in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, Bermuda, Barbados, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand…and even New Jersey.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s® comedy is inspired by the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Buster Keaton, classic Warner Brothers cartoons, the Three Stooges, Tom Lehrer, and the American electoral system.
The RSC’s weekly podcast was nominated for a 2007 Outstanding Podcast Award. It is one of the top-rated Performing Arts Podcasts in the USA, UK, Ireland, Belgium and Holland.
UK AUTUMN TOUR DATES 2008
SEPTEMBER
Thurs 4- Sat 6 LONDON, Stratford Circus 020 8279 1015
Tue 9 BUXTON, Opera House 0845 127 2190
Wed 10 RHYL, Pavilion Theatre 01745 330 000
Thurs 11 STOCKSBRIDGE, The Venue 0114 283 8692
Fri 12 HULL, New Theatre 01482 226655
Tue 16 HIGH WYCOMBE, Swan Theatre 01494 514 444
Wed 17- Thurs 18 WESTCLIFF ON SEA, Palace Theatre 01702 434335
Fri 19 – Sat 20 CHELMSFORD, Civic Theatre 01245 606792
Sun 21 ST ALBANS, Arena 01727 844 488
Tue 23 TAUNTON, Brewhouse 01823 283 244
Wed 24 CARDIFF, St David’s Hall 029 2087 8444
Thurs 25 BRECON, Theatr Brycheiniog 01874 611622
Fri 26 SWINDON, Wyvern Theatre 01793 524481
Sat 27 BARNSTAPLE, Queens Theatre 01271 324242
Sun 28 OXFORD, Theatre Headington 01865 759138
Tue 30 GREENWICH, Theatre 020 8858 7755
OCTOBER
Wed 1 CAMBERLEY, Theatre 01276 707600
Thurs 2 CRAWLEY, The Hawth 01293 552 941
Fri 3 – Sat 4 BRACKNELL, South Hill Park 01344 484123
Mon 6 READING, Hexagon 0118 960 6060
Wed 8 WAKEFIELD, Theatre Royal 01942 211311
Thurs 9 DERBY, Assembly Rooms 01332 255800
Fri 10 – Sat 11 UPPINGHAM, Theatre 01572 820820
Sun 12 CHIPPING NORTON, The Theatre 01608 642350
Tue 14 MARGATE, Theatre Royal 0845 130 1786
Wed 15 MAIDENHEAD, Norden Farm 01628 788997
Thurs 16 CHESHAM, Elgiva 01494 582900
Fri 17 NORWICH, Playhouse 01603 612580
Tue 21-Wed 22 KENDAL, Brewery Arts Centre 01539 725133
Thurs 23 STOKE on TRENT, Victoria Hall 01782 211281
Fri 24 LICHFIELD, Garrick 01543 412121
Sat 25 SOUTHPORT, Arts Centre 01704 540011
Tue 28 CARDIGAN, Theatr Mwldan 01239 621200
Wed 29 NEWTOWN, Theatre Hafren 01686 625007
Thurs 30 SWANSEA, Grand Theatre 01792 475715
Fri 31 NEWPORT, Riverfront 01633 656679
NOVEMBER
Sat 1 CHESTERFIELD, Pomegranate Th. 01246 345222
Wed 5 MANCHESTER, Palace Theatre 0844 847 2275
Thurs 6 LOUGHBOROUGH, Town Hall 01509 231914
Fri 7-Sat 8 RUNCORN, The Brindley 0151 907 8360
Tue 11 EPSOM, Playhouse 01372 742555
Thurs 13-Sat 15 WORCESTER, Swan Theatre 01905 611427
Sun 16 CREWE, Lyceum Theatre 01270 537333
Tue 18 WARRINGTON, Parr Hall 01925 442345
Wed 19 NEWARK, Palace Theatre 01636 655755
Thurs 20 HORSHAM, The Capitol 01403 750220
Fri 21 SLOUGH, The West Wing Arts Centre 01753 823710
Sun 23 BOGNOR, The Regis Centre 01243 861010
Tue 25 WHITEHAVEN, Rosehill Theatre 01946 692422
Wed 26 DARWEN, Library Theatre 01254 706006
Thurs 27 WOLVERHAMPTON, Arena Theatre 01902 321321
Fri 28 WOODBRIDGE, Seckford Theatre 01394 615015
Sat 29 DIDCOT, Cornerstone 01491 823823
Sun 30 CLACTON ON SEA, Princess Theatre
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