| The Critics Have Spoken!
 "Hey, this one's fun. I've seen several versions of speed-read Shakespeare, including the original, by the Reduced Shakespeare Company (who'd performed it so many times the trio just tried to entertain each other). The Lotus Theatre/Talent to aMuse version stands up to any and all. They blast through the plays, often with updated references (Chernobyl Kinsmen, Titus Androgynous - as a cooking show). Director Sophie Anderson Ziebell stresses the sheer impossibility of the task, and the cast (Kevin Six, Tyler Richard Hewes, and Tom Hall) performs with an urgency that stays funny... The Swedenborg Hall has never been lit better (Marie Miller), and the sound design/background music (Blair Robert Nelson) is a real plus as well."
-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
 " The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a rollicking and irreverent...high energy and quick paced tongue in cheek homage is clever and funny. Kevin Six, Tom Hall, and Tyler Richards Hewes...cavort to perfection.
If you check your reverence for the bard at the door, and let yourself go in this over the top theatrical experience, you will enjoy yourself."
- Kathleen Downs, San Diego Theatre Scene
"The three actors, all marvels of fast costume changes, easily take on Shakespeare's various characters...have a blast, laugh and cry at this brutalization. It is one of the best spoofs on the honored one.I do hope you have room on your calendar to take in The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)."
-Robert Hitchcox, San Diego Theatre Scene
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