{"id":40802216644,"date":"2017-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/abridged-too-far-less-is-hilariously-more-when-reduced-shakespeare-company-takes-on-all-the-great-books-this-october-at-monmouth-u\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:40:00","slug":"abridged-too-far-less-is-hilariously-more-when-reduced-shakespeare-company-takes-on-all-the-great-books-this-october-at-monmouth-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/abridged-too-far-less-is-hilariously-more-when-reduced-shakespeare-company-takes-on-all-the-great-books-this-october-at-monmouth-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Abridged Too Far? Less is hilariously MORE, when Reduced Shakespeare Company takes on \u201cAll the Great Books\u201d this October at Monmouth U!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are on sale now for an October 12, 2017 appearance by the happy-go-lucky Hamlets of The Reduced Shakespeare Company, delivering their hit show “All the Great Books (abridged)<\/a>” as part of the 2017-18 Performing Arts Series<\/a> at Monmouth.<\/p>\n

Hosted inside the refurbished Pollak Theatre, the 7:30 p.m. presentation brings to the flagship stage at Monmouth the celebrated company behind “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),” the whirlwind, world-wide sensation that’s broken box office records from London’s West End to Washington, D.C. and Washington state. Continuing in the spirit of that no-holds-Bard grapple with Mr. Shakespeare’s most frantic folio, a trio of “cultural guerrillas” tears through a groaning bookshelf of masterworks by history’s best-known authors and thinkers – digesting all the parts you’ve been meaning to get around to, and serving them up with an abandon that’s truly off the Cliff Notes.<\/p>\n

Conceived by RSC co-founder Austin Tichenor with longtime company member Reed Martin – and performed by a well-broken-in touring troupe of Reduced Shakespeare veterans – “Books” is designed for the benefit of those who are “confused by Confucius” and “thrown by Thoreau.” Delivering an hour and a half of “Little Dickens,” “Short Longfellow” and “Reduced Proust,” the multi-tasking actors employ these weighty volumes of literary canon fodder as fuel for a library-ladder locomotive ride, put forth in the signature supercharged style of such Reduced rave-ups as “The Complete History of America (abridged)” and “The Bible (abridged).”<\/p>\n

Tickets, priced at $35 and $45, can be reserved right now for the October 12 evening with the Reduced Shakespeare Company, by calling the Monmouth University Performing Arts Box Office at 732-263-6889, or visiting www.monmouth.edu\/mca. Stay tuned for news on other upcoming events in the Performing Arts Series, including LA Theatreworks (February 8, 2018) and Carolyn Dorfman Dance (February 25, 2018), and enjoy the show – but please, please, refrain from using “All the Great Books (abridged)” as your sole source of reference for college Lit classes or cocktail-party conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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