By Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Directed by Katrina Stevenson
Nov. 10-12, 2006
Fri.-Sat. 8 pm, Sun. 4 pm
Single Tickets: $25
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

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"Top 10 Performance of 2001" — Weekly Planet
"2001 Season Highlight" — The Tampa Tribune

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Having shrunk Shakespeare's wit and wisdom into manageable morsels of madness, Jobsite returns to tear around the stage in doublets and Chuck Taylor's on a riotous romp through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays plus the sonnets all in an hour and a half.

"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." — Ben Brantley, The New York Times

In this cult hit written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the full works of the Bard have been edited into just 90 minutes. All 16 comedies are distilled into one short extract and the historical plays are performed as a football game. The complete works of William Shakespeare in one evening? Ambitious? Foolhardy? Insane? Absolutely!

Audiences will be forced to throw out every preconceived notion of Shakespeare as Tampa's original Bad Boys of Abridgement condense his complete works into a single theatrical experience.

The 900-lb Gorillas

This show features the same Jobsite team that brought America (abridged) and Bible (abridged) to capacity Bay area crowds and will perform All the Great Books (abridged) in Jan. 2007. Tampa's Original Bad Boys of Abridgement		Click to Enlarge
	Jason Vaughan Evans David M. Jenkins Shawn Paonessa
Director, Prop-wrangler & Duds maker
	Katrina Stevenson
Stage Manager
	Summer Bohnenkamp-Jenkins

Production History

This production, originally produced by Jobsite in March of 2001, played to capacity crowds in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center for a 3-week run and has since been brought back in Tampa three times for one-night or one-weekend command performances – all of which have sold out. Jobsite also took the show in 2005 to Largo Cultural Center along with America (abridged) for a weekend. It was named a Top 10 production of 2001 by both Weekly Planet and The Tampa Tribune and continues to be one of Jobsite's most memorable and popular productions.

After sold-out performances at the Shimberg Playhouse, TECO Theater and the Largo Cultural Center, Jobsite includes The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) as part of its touring program to come to a theater near you!

Want to us perform at your theater? The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is now available for booking by contacting David M. Jenkins at 813.222.1092 or by e-mail. Learn more about our Tour program here.