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| All The Great Books - Abridged |
| May 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 and 28, 29, 30 at 8.00pm |
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By Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor,
with additional material by Matthew Croke and Michael Faulkner
Originally Produced by The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Directed By Wesley Ellul
Starring John Montanaro, Marc Cabourdin and Colin Fitz
Cert: 14 Duration 1hr 50 min (including interval)
Tickets €10 (Opening Weekend) €15
This is a new, side-splitting offering from the same people who wrote the smash hit play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).
Imagine three actors working through 89 books condensed into 90 minutes, something that even the Reader's Digest wouldn't attempt! That's All the Great Books (Abridged). So we get all of Dickens condensed into Great Expectorations, the Iliad and the Odyssey combined to produce The Idioddity (the Trojan Horse is wonderful!), War and Peace performed page by page (page 1 followed by page 40 followed by page 100 followed by page 400 - you get the picture, I'm sure!) whilst the majority of the books are given the privilege of a single line (or, more often, a single gag). And, of course, there's Ullyses, which bis all done by interior monologue!
John Montanaro, Marc Cabourdin and Colin Fitz have been swotting for weeks on all 89 novels and will be ready for a Q & A on each of the books after the performance - (with the obligatory pitstops at the bar downstairs first - acting is such thirsty work!)
Wesley Ellul, has denied responsibility for directing the play and was last seen trying to put a stopper on some volcano in Iceland.
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