Olean Community Theatre, Inc.
proudly presents its Season 28 opener...
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare (abridged)
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Fast-Paced Comedy
directed by Minna Badanes
February 16-17-18, 2007
Portville Central School Auditorium
The Players
Nathan H. Bell Paul A. Nelson
Eric Van Druff
directed by Minna Badanes
produced by Fior Zinzi
technical direction by Ken Roberts
"...embodies one of comedy's most essential impulses: the adolescent urge to take a baseball bat to the culturally revered. A mix of pratfalls, puns, willful misreadings of names and dialogue, clunky female impersonations, clean-cut ribaldry, and broad burlesque. The gung-ho vitality is impossible to resist. The conversion of the histories into a football game is very funny. So is a rap version of OTHELLO. HAMLET truly soars and allows the actors to come into their own as manic clowns. At its giddiest, its tone recalls the fabled Bullwinkle cartoon shows."
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
About the show...
Where else can you see Othello as a rap song, or King Lear as a football game, or Hamlet at supersonic speed—backwards? It could only be the riotously funny The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).
Three actors perform all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in a madcap style worthy of Groucho Marx.
Here's what the critics had to say:
Fst, fny, irrvrnt! It's a compleatly hilarious nt to be mssd parody guided by Shkspr's maxim: Brvty is the soul of wt.
---Elyse Sommer
CurtainUp
"This irreverent deconstruction of Shakepeare's work makes a dilly of poor Willy. A fantasia of zany energy that throws together Monty Python-ish drag and Mel Brook-ish anything-for-a-laugh gags."
- Michael Musto, New York Daily News
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