Arts in Bloom: Reduced Shakespeare Company's All the Great Books (Abridged)

Reduced Shakespeare Company's All the Great Books (Abridged) will perform on Friday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium. 

Little Dickens. Short Longfellow. Reduced Proust...All the Great Books. Less is More. 

The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgment 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 in All the Great Books (abridged). 

Called a "trio of Modern Marx Brothers" by the Boston Herald and "intellectual vaudeville" by the New York Times, The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a touring American comedy troupe that performs fast-paced, seemingly improvisational condensations of huge topics. They hold the record for the longest-running comedies in the history of London's West End as three of its shows ran in repertory at the Criterion Theater in Piccadilly Circus for almost ten years. 

Buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school.