- ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged)
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- June 21 - July 20, 2008
- San Jose Rep
101 Paseo de San Antonio
San Jose, CA 95113
- Box Office: 408-367-7255
"English class meets Monty Python" The Washington Post
A Little Dickens. A Short Longfellow.
Reduced Proust... All the Great Books. Less is More.
The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement
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.
Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish
Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop
aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of the RSC zip through everything you didn't get around to reading
in school.
You've seen their recent PBS special. You've heard
them on National Public Radio. They are officially
London's longest-running comedy troupe, and have broken
box-office records at the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. What are you
waiting for? Tempus fugit! Reductio ad absurdum.
"Raucously funny! Inspired, crazed ridiculousness!" Buffalo News
"The bouncy threesome deliver a physically boisterous brand of comedy. Laugh out loud hilarious." Washington City Paper
"Brilliant, surreal comedy. Street buskers for educated grown-ups. Who knew Homer was so funny? Not Simpson - the other one." Christopher Rawson - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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