Hat Trick Theatre Productions

Presents

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

(ABRIDGED)

 By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, & Jess Winfield

July 2 - 18, 2010

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:00 p.m.

Sunday Matinee @ 3:00 p.m.

Reserved Seating:  $15.00

General Admission:  $9.00

 All 37 Plays!!!!!!!!!!!

In Just 90 Minutes!!!!!!!!!!!

Exclamation Points!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Pithier than Python. Irresistible."  -- New York Times

"A madcap condensation that features non-stop laughs. Done at a whirlwind pace and with great delight, they are sure to win over even the most skeptical. And there is no doubt that William Shakespeare himself... would approve."   --  Daily Variety

"If you like Shakespeare, you'll like this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you'll  love this show!"   --  The Today Show

"Stupendous, anchorless joy!"   --  The London Times

"Wildly funny. Masterful!"   --  Los Angeles Times

"The funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime."   --  Montreal Gazette

"Shamelessly heretical!"   --  Time Out - London

"Gloriously, relaxingly funny."   --  Financial Times

"Shakespeare as it was back in the Bard's day: bawdy, irreverent, sublimely entertaining."  --   Miami Herald

"THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) 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

"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

"Fresh, energetic and funny. A wild and silly frolic."  --  Pia Lindstrom, W N B C-T V